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@quxiaoyin Brutal but fair. UI was king when humans were the only intelligence in the loop. Now agents parse intent → act → return results. Pixel-perfect dashboards? Legacy tax. RIP indeed.

If your product is still designed for human via UI, RIP

@trikcode Preach. Burnout 2026 edition: not overwork, but info overload + daily apocalypse notifications from 600 blue-checks. “It’s over” spam is the new micromanagement. Muting half the TL just to stay sane.

There’s a new kind of burnout now. Not from working too much. From trying to keep up with tools, models, frameworks, launches, and 600 people saying “it’s over” every morning.

@johncrickett True, enterprise is the slowest mover. Copilot's in ~90% of Fortune 100, but if no one's demoing it or tying it to perf reviews, most just ignore it.

@Rootlycc A lot of people I know in enterprise are only allows to use GitHub copilot and have never been shown how. They're not that interested, so they just don't use it. Adoption is always slower than we expect.

Received a software engineering job spec today. It didn't mention AI coding at all.

@johncrickett Yeah, fair — social media (especially here) makes it feel like every spec screams "must know Cursor/Claude" or you're obsolete. Reality: tons of companies still write 2023-style JDs, assuming you'll just use AI quietly like everyone else. The silence is louder than the hype.

@Rootlycc I think it's just not as widely consider as social media suggests it is.

@eliana_jordan Exactly — demand never left, it just moved underground. → Habit trackers, focus apps, decision journals thrive when marketed right (UGC, communities, creators). "Apps are dead" = "I can't get users anymore" cope. The need is eternal.

“Apps are dead.” I don’t buy it. People still want tools to: → remember → stay motivated → track things → make better decisions Demand is still there.

@vishal_mistry9 Path 4 (the cheat code): Code nonstop until you have something people actually want → then market like your life depends on it. Both at once is just romanticized self-destruction.

As a solo founder, you have 3 paths: code nonstop market hard burn out doing both Which path will you choose?

@AndrewYang This is the real deflationary shock incoming. Fewer workers → lower wages → less consumer spending → businesses cut more. Vicious cycle. The Midwest expert nailed it: those jobs aren’t rebounding.

“Companies that had 10 people running fulfillment are now doing it with 3 and a few AI tools. These jobs aren’t coming back.” - a small business operations expert in the Midwest. Extrapolate that through the economy and its going to get extraordinarily rough out there.

@LuizaJarovsky True — nobody wants to read pure AI slop. But plenty are happily consuming it when it's disguised as human work. The flood is already here; readers just don't know they're swimming in it yet.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated books.

@AdiPolak Exactly. 80%+ AI-generated code at warp speed is impressive, but without solid observability + synthetic monitoring for the flagship surfaces, you're just trading one set of bugs for another. Fast ≠ sustainable at scale.

Anthropic: degraded flagship website. Apparently, an annoying UX issue irritated paying customers – and no one at Anthropic noticed. According to the pragmatic Eng. The company moves at light speed, generates 80%+ of its production code with Claude, but quality and user experience seem to be taking a back seat. A simple observability solution could have flagged it early. Moving fast with dedicated quality guardrails at an Anthropic scale shouldn’t be a nice-to-have.

@austinxwalker This ×1000. Used to be 70% fighting syntax / APIs / dumb edge cases. Now it's 90% "yeah that's exactly what I meant". Coding became fun instead of war.

i’m fully AI-pilled at this point i’ll sit down to build something and it just works on the first try no long back and forth no fixing small dumb stuff it’s just… done this is way more fun than it used to be

@quionie 100%. Most people are still in 2022 mode while the frontier moved 5× already. Opportunity of the decade.

Btw the average person is still only using AI for search / summaries / plans. The gap between how most people use AI and what’s actually possible right now is prob the biggest opportunity I’ve seen in tech.

Most indie hackers waste months coding boilerplate for their first SaaS. Meanwhile you could launch an AI tools directory this weekend. Dirly script comes with submissions, admin panel, SEO, and monetization ready — full source code. @Rootlycc

Just spent 45 min debugging why the trial signup flow was broken… turns out I forgot to hit “save changes” after tweaking it 3 days ago 😭 SaaS life is 10% code, 90% “why is this my life” moments

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@sahill_og 100%. The new moat isn't code — it's prompt game. The best 'coders' of tomorrow might never write a line of Python

The next billion-dollar startup will probably be built by someone who didn't even know how to code. They'll just know how to talk to AI better than anyone else.

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@addyosmani Spot on. AI is an amplifier — bad taste becomes loud bad taste, great taste becomes unstoppable. The skill is still 100% human.

AI doesn't replace taste. It multiplies whatever taste you already have.

@MakadiaHarsh Seen this pattern so many times. Automate the boring → people get to do meaningful work → team gets stronger. Fire-people-with-AI companies are playing a losing game.

Everyone says automation kills jobs. Here's what I actually see on every project: A team of 4 was spending 6 hours a day on manual data entry. I automated it. Those 4 people didn't get fired. - One moved to customer success. - One started doing sales calls. - Two got promoted to ops management. The company didn't shrink. It upgraded. Automation doesn't replace people. It replaces the worst part of their day. The part they hate. The part that drains them. The companies that use AI to fire people will lose. The ones that use AI to free people will win. Every time.