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Ask HN: How's your home-cooked software revolution going?

By nihakue 4 min read 0 views 0 comments

I know the title is glib, but there is a genuine question behind it. With LLMs getting better, and services like sprites, deno sandboxes, exe.dev, and now lambda web functions making it cheaper to deploy very small scale-to-zero apps, I wanted to ask a question that I haven't seen asked on here recently.How has your relationship with technology changed in your 'regular' life in the past year or two? How about the (possibly less-technical) people around you? Have you found that access to better LLMs is inducing you to create more 'home-cooked' software for just you and your close friends and family? Are you feeling like you have more autonomy/control when it comes to the software/hardware that you interact with daily? What does your stack look like?The reason I ask is that I'm very bullish on the idea of [home-cooked software](https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/) and have noticed a personal uptick in the scope and efficacy of LLM-assisted coding. For me, the big benefit recently has been feeling like I can take on the dozens of small annoyances that I previously would have just tolerated because fixing them is high cost/low reward.The psychological benefit of getting…

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