Peteranother successful guy in his 50s has been one-shotted by Claude. F in the chat for Mike Masnick, may his brain RIP. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
i guess it's pretty exciting to build your first piece of software, but i wish these people would write a follow-up on what it's like to maintain a piece of software that you don't know how it works.
tons of "men playing with model trains" energy. like, good for you dude, i hope this is still fun when Claude costs $2k/mo.
**you** don't own any of this software that you "built", Anthropic does, and once you're hooked, they can charge you whatever they want. have fun!!
i think these guys in their 50s want to get the satisfaction of self-sufficiency without the hard work that produces actual self-sufficiency. like, the Type of Guy who gets to that age and buys a cabin in the woods, but with a hydraulic log-splitter and thousands of dollars worth of solar panels and a grocery delivery service. and then they walk around in flannel and boots bragging about going off grid. sure dude.
again: it's **always** men doing this shit. i can't think of a single example of a prominent woman in her 50s who has suddenly started vibe-coding her own apps and telling everyone about how it's a game-changer. the male brain must be studied!
i am sure there are some examples of Women of a Certain Age who have been one-shotted, and i would certainly like to hear about them! for science!! personally, i've only seen men, and almost always men in their 50s
i can think of counter-examples!! @Mer__edith, for example, is like "fuck this shit, absolutely not." queen.
jonathankoren™@peter yes. Do not democratize.
KEEP THE GATE STRONG!!!
— signed a guy five months away from being in his 50s and has programmed for over 40 years.
Jeff Benzos@jonathankoren @peter shut the fuck up. "Democratize" by burning the world down so people can custom order unmaintainable garbage, you people should be kicked in the fucking face until candy comes out
@decay @[email protected] what type of maintenance does a todo list app need?
And yes, being able to custom order software that fits your needs and not some billionaire’s is democratization full stop.
@decay
Geez. I can’t imagine why this would happen to you given that you called do me to be brutally murdered for daring to say that custom software for the masses is a blow against robber barons because it empowers individuals.
The irony that you post from your own instance isn’t lost on at least one of us though. Can’t be banned from your own instance!
https://gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com/@decay/statuses/01KMEWEWDCVQ9F8Y2TCSCM0VCX
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Goseg Train Thread
@peter guy in his 50s using an LLM says he's like a formula one driver lol lmao
@wvistheduck men with their toy trains lol
myrmepropagandistThe cringe gave me a cramp... lordt ...
Misuse Case@peter If I, a Woman of a Certain Age, were vibe-coding some apps for my own personal use I would certainly not be hyping about it in public. It’s not some great accomplishment and I’m not a free advertising service.
@MisuseCase yes!! i am sure there are women who do this, but the men seem to think they deserve credit for it or something. imagine, men taking credit for a thing someone else did!!
Taylor - Romanceable NPC@peter As a woman, the only vibe coding I'll ever do is coding while, well, using a vibe.
@dyke_du_jour lol 😂 believe in you
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)@peter it's almost always white men in their 50s, appropriating others' work as their own. thinking emoji
Hank G ☑️@peter "I decided to see if I could effectively rebuild the tool myself, fully controolled by me, without having to rely on a company that might change or enshittify the app." I mean the whole tech stack he's writing with is now reliant on the one company not enshittifying everything or charging much higher rates once there is vendor lock. He's not a stupid person. He must see that right? Unlike FOSS, which has a similar abandonware problem, when it is integrated into your entire *thought* process you are stuck and fucked. There are some cool things you can do with Claude and other agents. Until there is a truly open model that you can self host and that wasn't trained by boiling rivers processing stolen data I'm just not interested in playing with them.
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