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Even with LLMs, building software yourself still costs real ongoing human time, so replacing a paid tool with an LLM-built internal one often does not pay off.
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What Brandur Leach actually said
- Brandur Leach Software engineer at River, previously at Stripe
While LLMs have made software considerably cheaper to build, they haven't brought it to zero. Good LLM-built systems still involve a feedback loop, where an operator has the model work for a while, makes adjustments based on results, asks for another pass, refines further, and so on
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↗The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Softwarebrandur.org
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