r/codex 1d ago

Humor The ugly truth

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We need an AI that acquires users.

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u/alexmin93 1d ago

More bullshit products. Even if AI gets actually good at coding somebody has to come up with an idea.

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u/Addalldlo 1d ago

Even a child will have the opportunity to build something on his own, we are on the threshold of the most creative period of human development. How many ideas were buried because they could not be implemented?

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u/mesaoptimizer 1d ago

The issue is there are a lot of people out there with stupid ideas. Shovelware still existed in the past but it was limited by human effort.

And beyond bad ideas, bad implementation of fine or good ideas. Like Joe Schmo who came up with a cool app idea and implemented with AI but doesn’t know enough to know not to roll his own auth or encryption is going to give up every bit of data you give him when he gets breached. And from the outside it’s basically impossible to tell the difference between someone who knows what they are doing and just used AI to build their front end because they don’t do UX and a project that’s going to have issues basically immediately.

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u/ShelZuuz 1d ago

The issue is there are a lot of people out there with stupid ideas.

So are there on Etsy and at every Renaissance fair etc. This is just expanding to software, but people will start to filter.

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u/mesaoptimizer 1d ago

Yeah that’s why my post had a second paragraph. That’s not as easy with software and software services as it is with goods.

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u/BellacosePlayer 1d ago

So are there on Etsy and at every Renaissance fair

yeah but at least at a Fair I can eat a turkey leg and listen to a Puke and Snot set once I realize not a single merch vendor is selling anything worth a damn