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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

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413 points martinald | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 19:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nine_k ◴[08 Dec 25 20:15 UTC] No.46197061[source]▶
Had the cost of building custom software dropped 90%, we would be seeing a flurry of low-cost, decent-quality SaaS offering all over the marketplace, possibly undercutting some established players.

From where I sit, right now, this does not seem to be the case.

This is as if writing down the code is not the biggest problem, or the biggest time sink, of building software.

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klntsky ◴[08 Dec 25 22:05 UTC] No.46198282[source]▶
People vibe one-off solutions for themselves all the time. They just don't have the desire to productionalize them. Frankly, product knowledge is something LLMs are not that good at
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1. RajT88 ◴[08 Dec 25 23:03 UTC] No.46198897[source]▶
Low code solutions like PowerApps I bang out stuff like this all the time. If your use case is limited enough, it makes lazy developers very productive.