Even worse if you've spent time developing a moral compass

Anyone who needs an article for this: don't bother, nothing to lose!

"We’re not building some “better git”.

We’re building the infrastructure for how software gets built next."

Dude, aside from this type of phrasing being cringe, it's such blatantly obvious LLM induced psychosis phrase... ridiculous.

I didn't even read that insanely long article explaining why one would need this (the necessity should have rang one or two bells for the author)... but all i could think of before reading that cringe ending, was: you're building what comes after git, but carry "git" in your name seems kinda odd... already revealing you either don't believe your own claims, or you do, but don't really mean what you're claiming... either way: WTF. Insane what's getting funded.

Also: the trend of companies overly feeling the need to explain they're not just X + AI (which also means LLM API), should really ring a lot of other bells to everyone else... god damn, too many bells to ring... and it seems like there is only AI chatbots left, that respond to anyone ringing the bell... god damn... they already took over & infected the human brain...

Lol. I mean what the hell is this. I have this weird feeling this guy got tricked by an LLM into thinking this move is smart... "what you've built is not just a json formatter, it's the next big...".

I mean good luck to that guy. Everyone should have a shot at turning his free work into something worth it. I think i've been using that extension as well. But yeah, i never cared enough to know if it was this one. But i do hope there are others who did & he can surprise me and turn this user base into customers of a commercial product. If he pulls that of, i'd be truly impressed.

I what feature can even be added to the product that won't be immediately replicated in a fork?

Nobody knows what but everybody knows they won't be replicated.

Chat with your json?

Facebook but for jsons?

Send json to blockchain?

It's so bad that it's exciting, can't wait for an update.

It will certainly involve AI somehow.

> the gap between capability and behavior might be much smaller

Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean with the gap?

What exactly does it do that a professional would charge you thousands for?

(I'm genuinely asking)

The basic problem is that the reporting and accounting rules are double plus bureaucratic and you need to have on hand multiple registers that show the financial situation at any time, submit them to the tax authority etc.

To give you a small taste: you need to issue an electronic invoice for each unique customer, and submit on the fly the tax authority - but these need to correlated monthly with the money in your business bank account. The paid invoices don't just go into your bank account, they are disbursed from time to time by the payment processor, on random dates that don't sync with the accounting month, so at end of month you have to have correlate precisely what invoice is paid or not. But wait, the card processor won't just send you the money in a lump sum, it will deduct from each payment some random fee that is determined by their internal formula, then, at the end of each month, add all those deducted fees (even for payments that have not been paid to you) and issue another invoice to you, which you need to account for in you books as being partially paid each month (from the fees deducted from payments already disbursed). You also have other payment channels, each with their fees etc. So I need to balance this whole overlapping intervals mess with all sort of edge cases, chargebacks and manual interventions I refuse to think about again.

This is one example, but there are also issues with wages and their taxation, random tax law changes in the middle of the month etc. The accountant can of course solve all this for you, but once you go a few hundred invoices per month (if you sell relatively cheap services) you are considered a "medium" business, so instead of paying for basic accounting services less than 100€ per month (have the certified accountant look over your books and sign them, as required by law), you will need more expensive packages which definitely add up to thousands in a few months.

Go be an entrepreneur, they said.

How did people forget that github was purchased by that one company?

> I don't know what to think. These blog articles are supposed to be a showcase of engineering expertise, but bragging about having AI vibecode a replacement for a critical part of your system that was questionably designed and costing as much as a fully-loaded FTE per year raises a lot of other questions.

I agree. But most of the time the people responsible for the codebase / architecture do not want those questions raised. AI is greatly appreciated emergency exit for those situations. Apparently.

> But most of the time the people responsible for the codebase / architecture do not want those questions raised.

I don't know if that matches my experience. I've seen plenty of places where the dev teams complain about tech debt and other kludges costing too much, slowing them down and causing other problems, but management don't want to "waste time re-writing working code".

But now that management read on linkedin they can jump on the AI bandwagon by having the team use AI to fix tech debt, there's suddenly time to work on it.

Eliminating manual toil seems like a huge win for LLMs. There are a ton of straightforward-but-tedious projects that no one wants to fund because they take 2 dev weeks to implement and the result is a hard to quantify quality of codebase improvement. Some of these can now be handled by an LLM in a day and so they suddenly become extremely tractable. You don’t have to embrace vibe coding to benefit from cheap debt pay down.

That's pretty optimistic. First of all, the people who were manually toiling are getting laid off - LLMs aren't exactly making their lives better.

And I'm not talking about cases where an AI can do things faster. We have a few tech debt tickets at work right now where using an AI will take the same amount of time, because the "hard part" isn't writing the code but working with other teams to organize or roll out the changes. But since we can use AI, management is suddenly interested.

It's silly, and I can't wait for the AI bubble to burst.

> First of all, the people who were manually toiling are getting laid off

I was referring to the sort of work that just never gets funded. Cleanup, refactoring.

If you have business critical toil being done by people who now get laid off, that is obviously a cause for concern.

> the "hard part" isn't writing the code but working with other teams to organize or roll out the changes. But since we can use AI, management is suddenly interested.

So AI has convinced your management to let you pay down tech debt? Seems like a win.

at least they‘re not trying to play the „our tech is too dangerous“ card as the sunset reason (again [yet]).

also, for a company carrying „open“ in their name, that pretends to still remember its origins, they could open source at least the projects they sunset…

Yes. Want to keep it that way? Or what are you working on?