I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code

Using an LLM, I managed to rewrite all the functionality I used to pay for in 20 minutes

No, you didn't.

• The service you pay for polls the APIs of these services and dynamically fetches the linkedin shout outs or w/e, then displays them.

• You had AI scrape your linkedin, convert to JSON, then convert again to static HTML, which you manually do and deploy.

It's a fun project and It's awesome to build stuff yourself, but pretending like these things are the same is disingenuous. The irony here is the service you replaced is trivial to build and have AI build, but it would have taken you a lot longer.

ive been buildin 'solutions' like this for 30 years. what the llms have done is reduce my time to maybe a few minutes, and lowers the barrier to entry to the technically ignorant.

lowering that barrier still leaves a non-insignificant portion who want it bundled up and handed to them with a bow on it. plenty of people are happy to pay for a supported product and have no desire to attempt resolving the underlying issue/resource themselves.

What do you think?

It probably contains some level of "cross-site-scripting-as-a-service" now, I guess.

Uh oh, LLM in the title. Lemmings are about to downvote en masse regardless of anything else