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This was a pre-LLM YC startup AssemblyMade which was basically this

Not affordable, unless the devs are in somewhere like Vietnam. And there's still no way they can build as fast. And still, at that price point, quality would be highly questionable. So yh this doesn't survive beyond the joke stage.

The mention of quality puts it firmly into the joke territory, indeed.

I don't understand how that would not be a complete joke even if tokens were 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than they are.

If you put that behind an API, you could sell the service much like the AI providers

And then get sued for fraud and go under, like Builder.ai

What if, and I know this is utterly batshit insane to suggest, but what if we don't lie about what we're doing?

Thats called Kickstarter

Sort of but in reverse.

If users posted ideas, voted on them and then other people built them then that would be the same. But kickstarter is the producer posting an idea for presale

I wonder why that didn’t happen on kick starter. Product hunt was kind of this. It’s actually interesting. Why didn’t this ever happen?

I think because you don't know /which/ developer you're going to get.

One interesting aspect of LLMs is that each one, weights frozen, can be thought of as a single developer whose work you have already evaluated.

The cost of finding, evaluating, and negotiating with a new human is tremenous.

Fable will actually finish the job.

It can work for students as a grant

how expensive do you think tokens are, and/or how cheap do you think a developer is?

Someone posted 20k/month Fable budgets only a few days ago. That's nearly 250k/year, which is what Oxide pays their employees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471771

That is a ridiculous amount of AI usage, though, and will output way more code than a single developer.

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