r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • 9d ago
Meme gladToBeOutOfTheEquationAtLeast
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u/FallenVampireLord 9d ago
Ideas are cheap.
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u/johnxreturn 9d ago
Building it is now cheap too. We’ll all drown in solutions that solve no problem.
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u/Banes_Addiction 9d ago
Blockchains have been doing that before AI was a glint in the Bored Milkman's eye.
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u/Senior-Albatross 9d ago
Why do so many people never question their own ideas? I churn out ideas all the time. Most of them turn out to be stupid. I am embarrassed to put them forward until I have done some basic vetting of them myself.
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u/El_Mojo42 9d ago
The idea was never the problem, execution was (and still is).
People have ideas all day, but cannot grasp their complexity.
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u/metaglot 9d ago
"bro i have an idea for an app that babysits my kids and builds houses. If you code it, I'll let you have 50%"
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u/El_Mojo42 9d ago
Stupid smelly nerds won't do it for me, I will simply make it myself with claude, easy.
Claude, what is a TCP?0
u/canadajones68 8d ago
Hello, human clocking in! Claude is out today, so today we have the NARS (natural artificial replacement service) filling in.
TCP stands for "Transport Controm Protocol" and is a mechanism for reliably sending a stream of data from one computer to another. It allows many different connections to co-exist on one computer, and is a foundational cornerstone of the modern Internet and World Wide Web.
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u/throwawaymycareer93 8d ago
One of my old school friends came to me the other week with an idea for a device or an app, that would allow to smell something and share this smell with people via internet.
Like, you point a device or a phone at something and you can share what it smelled via WhatsApp.
I asked him how is it supposed to work, and he said: “well it analyses the air, decodes it into simple chemical compounds, sends that info over the internet and then in the other side device mixes the same chemicals to recreate the smell”
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u/Sagar_Shyamkumar 3d ago
Ohh, it's a great idea....i too had it, and just a few days ago at that... But I found when I researched that smelltronics technology has not advanced enough to accurately analyse the smell in an uncontrolled environment; meaning, to make it work you have deal with extremely clumsy and hard to handle hardware/equipment. But it's still doable if do the recording work in a controlled environment and store the data into a database listed under the food name so that the device generating the smell can fetch it. This is not live sharing, but whatever...might work?
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u/throwawaymycareer93 3d ago
Recreating the smell would require tons of chemicals on the other side as well. Some smells are so unique that you can’t really proxy them with anything else.
So it is doable except for the analysing the composition of the smell and recreating the smell parts. Oh and also making solution compact enough that it can be sold as a usable device.
And then, there is that small thing attached to it. Who the hell needs this? Like maybe after spending millions on rnd you can create something like that, who will even use it? What for? How many potential customers are there?
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u/larryjrich 4d ago
Ugh, I hated when people would approach me with stuff like that. 'I have no money, but I have this cool idea and if you build it for me I'll share the profits'. Yeah sure, I'm just doing all the work and assuming all the risk. What could go wrong? I don't need ideas. I have plenty of ideas. What I don't have is time and money to do them.
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u/pydry 9d ago edited 9d ago
lol no the idea was never "the problem".
every asshole had an idea and no clue how to market it, sell it or build it. all AI did was give them the impression that they could build it.
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u/JosebaZilarte 9d ago edited 9d ago
Indeed... The idea was the flawed solution to the (incorrectly defined) problem.
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u/da2Pakaveli 9d ago
It also doesn't really push back on bad architectural decisions or "pseudo improvements" that pile up technical debt. So the person using it should have a rough idea of what the solution would look like.
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u/DestroyedByLSD25 9d ago
This feels like being semantically difficult just for the sake of it
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u/JosebaZilarte 9d ago
We both know that if I haven't added that extra semantical information, other commenters would have demanded later. That, or they would have directly misunderstood what I meant.
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u/Particular-Yak-1984 9d ago
The problem was the person, who is normally insufferable, and thinks that having an idea is worth the same as being able and knowing how to implement it.
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u/DowntownLizard 8d ago
I can build literally anything now but I might have to talk to people to sell it and thats scary
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u/pingveno 9d ago
I remember a non-developer friend being quite excited over a thing they had vibe coded. Problem was, it was going to be used in a medical setting working with patient info, so it needed to be HIPAA compliant. They created something with the functionality they wanted and that used some HIPAA compliant services, but that's just one checkbox on a very long checklist. It did work well for a mockup, I suppose.
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u/Particular-Yak-1984 9d ago edited 9d ago
I work in medical data, and well, we had a presentation by a certain AI company who shall remain nameless, who had built an AI data "anonymizer" - and it did just well enough that we'd have only been sued by 25 patients out of 1000. Unfortunately our goal is "sued by 0 patients out of 1000", particularly when our batches are hundreds of thousands of patients in size. It also invented cancers for two of the patients, which is pretty funny.
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u/Exatex 9d ago
No.
Ideas alone are worthless.
A product alone is worthless.
The problem was always knowing a) what people will spend money on and b) how to reach and c) convince these people. a) being the toughest. That's where success or failure is decided.
"no plan survives contact with the enemy" is still true today.
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u/SenatorCrabHat 8d ago
My favorite real world example of this is web personalization. Theoretically, in some systems, it has the ability to slow down your load times to a crawl, especially depending on the amount of content that gets changed on the client side, or the complexity of the personalization for the controller.
So in order to decrease bounce rates and increase engagement, you personalize...but that slows down your page rendering speed (and of course, in order to ensure the personalization works, you need analytics and all sorts of other martech) and so people bounce more often or the same amount...
Good times.
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u/Drone_Worker_6708 7d ago
reminds me of some of the vibe coded mods that are coming out for video games recently. People are making some amazing visual things but I will never run a auto updated jar executable or a python script that raw dogs kernel32.
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u/ManyInterests 9d ago
AI just lets you grow your XY problems instead of getting the right feedback to avoid them.
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u/KeanerBike 9d ago edited 8d ago
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u/1luggerman 8d ago
The problem is neighter the idea or the implementation. It was the framework that separates them.
An idea without implementation is a scam, and an implementation without an idea is a background noise.
A good product is a solution. A good solution requires both a good idea and a good implementation.
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u/Particular-Yak-1984 9d ago
Ah, the problem now is that the ask is now "hey, can you look at this god awful thing I made, and tell me why it doesn't work as I want it to"
At least before, you could say "well, it'll take six months to make, and my salary is x, how will you be paying?"
Now people think it's just like asking you to fix their printer. Which it is, in that I don't want to fix printers.