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> sounds like alot of work and expense for something that is meant to make programming easier and cheaper.

It's not more work; it's a convergence of roles. BA/PO/QA/SWE are merging.

AI has automated aspects of those roles that have made the traditional separation of concerns less desirable. A new hybrid role is emerging. The person writing these acceptance criteria can be the one guiding the AI to develop them.

So now we have dev-BAs or BA-devs or however you'd like to frame it. They're closer to the business than a dev might have been or closer to development than a BA might have been. The point is, smaller teams are able to play wider now.

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Oh a modern comeback of the analyst-programmer?

> It's not more work

It literally is. You're spending weeks of effort babysitting harnesses and evaluating models while shipping nothing at all.

That hasn't been my experience, as a "ship or die" solopreneur. It takes work to set up these new processes and procedures, but it's like building a factory; you're able to produce more once they're in place.

And you're able to play wider, which is why the small team is king. Roles are converging both in technologies and in functions. That leads to more software that's tailored to niche use cases.

> you're able to produce more once they're in place

Cool story, unfortunately the proof is not in the pudding and none of this fantom x10 vibe-coded software actually works or can be downloaded and used by real people.

P.S. Compare to AI-generated music which is actually a thing now and is everywhere on every streaming platform. If vibe coding was a real thing by now we'd have 10 vibecoded repos on Github for every real repo.

There's no need to be rude with comments like "cool story." I'm sharing my experience with you. I'm not an AI-hype influencer. I'm a SWE who runs a small SaaS business.

Where it sounds like we agree is that there's some obnoxious marketing hype around LLMs. And people who think they can vibe code without careful attention to detail are mistaken. I'm with you there.

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