This is a submission for the World's Largest Hackathon Writing Challenge: After the Hack.
Woo boy. Insane number of pivots. Burning 100k tokens per request. Foot constantly on the gas. That was my Bolt hackathon experience and, I think all of us can relate a little.
The Truth: Solo Development has changed - iteration > all
I was not much of a developer before AI, but even with it, I always personally emphasized understanding the code-base, using the ai only to explain, and developing fundamentals before writing a line. Now, all that is mixed into one, horrid amalgamation of ai, code slop, and speed.
It's truly unprecedented, but anyone (and literally anyone) can put out code, push it to a github repo, and deploy it on a live url, and have a functional website in 15 minutes. The barrier to coding has indeed, hit damn near rock bottom. An already saturated tech market has just had the flood gates burst open, and everyone and their mother CAN become the next tech millionaire. So, in this world, what is the key that I've gathered from the hackathon? Speed. Pure speed above all. Speed in ideas, in pivoting, in drafting MVP's, and tearing those MVP's down and creating a new MVP. It's become 10x more important now to understand what to build, then how to build it. Anyone knows how to build it - just ask your favorite AI tool.
The SaaS tech-bro seas have become more saturated than ever, and it only grows. It's the one who has the most adderall, the most ADHD, and the most autistic drive that succeeds in the internet world.
We are entering a new world, where humans outsource code to an AI Agent, and code is written and trashed at unprecedent rates. This hackathon has then, has taught me my first, and biggest lesson in the tech-bro SaaS underworld: Speed, speed, speed, and can we go even faster?
Best,
Evan
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