My 9 year old can sit down with the Replit Agent and make a simple game that entertains her for hours.

She couldn't make a business application and go out and start selling subscriptions, but there are whole categories of tools that can be created that are ultra simple CRUD apps that bring specific value to one person. Code quality and/or understanding how it works is irrelevant for that use case.

> Code quality and/or understanding how it works is irrelevant for that use case.

Until you encounter an error that needs debugging, or you want to extend their functionality.

How much is this saying when just a couple decades ago a 9 year old could imagine that a broomstick was a sword and that they were fighting knights on the battlefield?

A child can fill in tons of gaps with their animation (see: Rugrats). We're talking about "is AI good enough to enable a 100% non-technical user able to create software on the fly without the non-technical user losing patience?" This is the discussion.

There isn't a return for shareholders if the valuations are lower. The problem is not management holding the business hostage today, the problem was investing at unsustainable multiples a few years ago.

Now the only options are to either cash out at a lower valuation and not make any money, or wait and hope the business grows to the point where you can get a higher total valuation despite the lower multiple and see a return on your capital.

So Twitter/Blue Sky/Whatever implements a “report abuse” link.

Who does it report abuse to? What happens to the post? What happens to the person who powered it?

We have been running PlanetScale as our production database for about 6 months, migrated from Aurora Serverless. I love it, their query insights tool has been a game changer for us and has allowed us to optimize a ton of queries in our application. Their support is always available and highly technical.

For a sense of scale, we have ~150gb of data running around 5 trillion row reads + 500 million row writes per month

We’re you using the Aurora Serverless data APIs? Curious if there is something equivalent on PlanetScale.

I was not, we are a Laravel PHP backend, using the standard PHP stuff for connection management

From what I understand your webserver and php implementation is stored on different servers from PlanetScale's DBs(?)

Just wonder: How are the DB queries from your php implementation to the Planetscale DBs affected by network latency (hops and length between servers) as well as bandwidth (query results returned by PlanetScale DBs)?

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Their team is awesome, I requested a couple features in the CLI and they were there within a few hours. Support is responsive and the sales team was super helpful getting everything running and migrated.

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How would they “address” that? It’s outside of their control

I don't think "real" engineering is necessarily any better at estimating. Take a look at any large construction project and the norm is to be over time and over budget.

There are lots of reasons for that, which can fall outside of the scope of engineering, but the same is true for software.

I want to second this, I worked as a mechanical engineer and never had accurate time estimates there either. Estimates of how long the work will take will be wrong whenever there are new problems to be solved, which is all engineering worth the name.

“Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a backup app you can already build such yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem”

Sure, the Dropbox comment will never stop being a meme.

But in a world where, for example, a competing product like Fantastical already exists, costs less and does more, it does seem valid to be wondering what is going on.

As others have said, investments in startups are based a lot more on the potential of the team behind them than their existing products.

"People were too cynical about one YC startup, therefore any future cynicism is invalid" doesn't really make a lot of sense.

I don't think it's fair to compare a way to seamlessly move data around with "We’re building a calendar app for the Mac menu bar."

I think the point was that Dropbox was not at the time viewed as "seamlessly moving data around". We see it in retrospect as revolutionary, but that was certainly not the view at the time since many of us had already seen online storage platforms come and go (xdrive, anyone?).

I will not comment on whether this calendar app is revolutionary, it might not be, but it's also possible it is something that will make an impact. There's lots of untapped potential in the calendar and event space, in my opinion.

Is there an opportunity to make a cheaper Dropbox? Their paid service is very expensive.

OneDrive?

Not a lot of synergy from the end user’s perspective, but the value of those platforms is the advertising network, which is a massive synergy for Facebook operating all three platforms and owning all three audiences. I don’t know how exactly a split would work but I see more downside than upside to having to recreate the ad network on each platform.