Ben Vinegar's mental models

Their wordsSo I guess I guess that's my like weird take, which is there's an underserved market for understanding. It is hard to market because it's like you can't really put like a dollar or like a metric on it in the same way that you can tokens.

Their wordsFeels like the demand for OSS hasn't felt this low in a while: 1. People can just codegen what they want 2. Companies will use whatever gets them to market faster to capitalize on AI – if it's a black box so what

Their wordsWhen SaaS products grow and the architecture starts to break down, two types of devs emerge: 1. Those who believe the system is beyond repair and needs to be totally rebuilt 2. Those who put their heads down and fix it one piece at a time I've only seen group #2 be successful.

Their wordsto make *actually* good software, you have to use it a lot but many people are spending more time in their coding agents/factories than in the apps they're building - so they won't

Their wordsThat uncovered many small issues and patched them - enough to feel like we were making progress - but it steered us away from the *real* problem There’s still no substitute for expertise

Their wordsWhereas when you're, when you're ripping on just like a lower fidelity mock -ups that might be like 80 % fidelity that kind of tell you the shape, like you, it takes less tokens. The agent takes less time to generate it. It puts you on the better path going forward.

Their wordsyou get lulled into this false sense of security. But I've already experienced agents kind of like reason to themselves about why they gotta go and do something and seen, um, seen some bad effects of that. And I just, like, my position and the position of the company, for example, is we just, everything is gated. We don't just let agents go YOLO.

Their wordsthis like fast fashion, like fast fashion of software is what we're experiencing right now. where people are building something and they're like, hey, look at this. And if they don't, like, if people don't use it, they throw it away and go and try to find some other flash in the pan thing. Folks, my advice to you is have some conviction and work on things a little bit longer.