another 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.
@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.