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| Ask HN: My product makes money, AI does the coding, and I feel useless | ||
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| 3 points by hellohiki 30 minutes ago │ hide │ past │ favorite │ 3 comments | ||
| I solo founded a SaaS in 2019, on nights and weekends, while i was also working as a developer in another company in parallel. Today i don't have a 9 to 5 job anymore, the platform works. Real customers pay for it every week and easily pay my old salary. But I miss the days when I was debugging: Something was broken, I worked on it, and then it worked because of me. Today most of the code is fixed and AI handles most of what is left, I even wrote the harness for AI to replace me. And I feel more and more useless on my own project. Those are the periods I remember with pleasure. A team was stuck, I came in, and things started to work. At this point, i should've found something else to do, a bigger problem to solve, but i feel kinda stuck. My questions: 1. If AI now writes most of the code and manages tasks on your own product, where did you find the part of the work that still needs you? 2. How did you find the place where you were needed today? |
Today i don't have a 9 to 5 job anymore, the platform works. Real customers pay for it every week and easily pay my old salary.
But I miss the days when I was debugging: Something was broken, I worked on it, and then it worked because of me.
Today most of the code is fixed and AI handles most of what is left, I even wrote the harness for AI to replace me. And I feel more and more useless on my own project.
Those are the periods I remember with pleasure. A team was stuck, I came in, and things started to work.
At this point, i should've found something else to do, a bigger problem to solve, but i feel kinda stuck.
My questions:
- If AI now writes most of the code and manages tasks on your own product, where did you find the part of the work that still needs you?
- How did you find the place where you were needed today?
| rebisway 17 minutes ago │ next [–] I keep doing both, writing some app myself, and some with AI to keep kownledge in my head, otherwise you might be lost if something goes wrong. Conserning AI, depends of your projects, you can find your way in designing how things work, you can challenge AI in how to build things, what stack to use, how to organize code, how to organize source, how to test... AI is great to write the doc as well, dev nightmare... There are a lot of fields you can get fun with AI. reply | rebisway 17 minutes ago │ next [–] I keep doing both, writing some app myself, and some with AI to keep kownledge in my head, otherwise you might be lost if something goes wrong. Conserning AI, depends of your projects, you can find your way in designing how things work, you can challenge AI in how to build things, what stack to use, how to organize code, how to organize source, how to test... AI is great to write the doc as well, dev nightmare... There are a lot of fields you can get fun with AI. reply | ||
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| rebisway 17 minutes ago │ next [–] I keep doing both, writing some app myself, and some with AI to keep kownledge in my head, otherwise you might be lost if something goes wrong. Conserning AI, depends of your projects, you can find your way in designing how things work, you can challenge AI in how to build things, what stack to use, how to organize code, how to organize source, how to test... AI is great to write the doc as well, dev nightmare... There are a lot of fields you can get fun with AI. reply | |||
| hafern 24 minutes ago │ prev │ next [–] I feel the same (minus founding a SaaS). What concerns me the most is I can feel my brain rotting and losing old skills. Yes I could train outside of work but that'd take away all my free time. reply | hafern 24 minutes ago │ prev │ next [–] I feel the same (minus founding a SaaS). What concerns me the most is I can feel my brain rotting and losing old skills. Yes I could train outside of work but that'd take away all my free time. reply | ||
| hafern 24 minutes ago │ prev │ next [–] I feel the same (minus founding a SaaS). What concerns me the most is I can feel my brain rotting and losing old skills. Yes I could train outside of work but that'd take away all my free time. reply | |||
| bob1029 20 minutes ago │ prev [–] How are your customers doing? Any competition in your market? reply | bob1029 20 minutes ago │ prev [–] How are your customers doing? Any competition in your market? reply | ||
| bob1029 20 minutes ago │ prev [–] How are your customers doing? Any competition in your market? reply |
Conserning AI, depends of your projects, you can find your way in designing how things work, you can challenge AI in how to build things, what stack to use, how to organize code, how to organize source, how to test... AI is great to write the doc as well, dev nightmare...
There are a lot of fields you can get fun with AI.