Software engineering is dead now

"takes forever to load" **shows something loading instantly**

I'm sorry but the "take forever to load" load times look EXACTLY the same as your "instantly load"

Theo next year: I've built too many apps I can't support any of them turns out churning out an MVP was never the problem

I basically opened the Block's Wikipedia page and its recent history is nothing but layoffs since 2024. They are NOT doing good financially. Attributing it to AI is just a way to make it look good. Theo, the problem with your products is that they are incredibly simple. What you are doing is basically an up-scaled automation of your own workflow,. This is why for you, code doesn't matter. I mean, everybody is vibe coding their pet projects now. The real value is coming from building something that makes money directly. Not just "helping to make money". Nope, something that directly does the work that you can own and charge for. Like Adobe Software or some freight routing software. The IT market is saturated with "helpers". I know it's much easier to build because I'm on a team that has 2 projects: one does the real work, the other one organizes humans on "a collaborative platform". AI can't make sense of half of what's going on in the one that does the real work. That's because the business logic there is incredibly complex and the outcome looks like magic from the outside. That's where the real value lies. In the "collaborative platform" though, AI can write decent code. Yes, people like it a lot too. But its so simple, we are literally giving away the code to other departments and they spin up their own modified copies of it for their own processes. That's what a typical Twitter-spawned IT product looks like right now. And that's what AI can actually help creating and this is what you are used to seeing. Engineers will have to remember how to solve hard problems once again and forget about coding endless endpoints/centering divs.

ah yes because Jack is totally a normal person lmao

It has everything to do with Jack Dorsey's (and other CEO's) delusions, and nothing to do with AI replacing software engineers.

78 days until Theo decides to build his own Excalidraw-clone tailored to his needs

Hey Theo, could you do a full video showing the process of how you make an a good functional, launchable app using your ai work flow please? It would be great to have a reference point. It would also be great to see the process for making changes to an existing codebase. Overall I think it would be good to show the process and what requires manual input from you and what doesn't. Would love if every intervention you made would be shown!

> saas is dead > launches another saas

"i cloned X app/tech just with no edge cases, no this, no that, kind of 80% (all the easy cases)" is equivalent to "i built a car from scratch, but it only go in straight line"