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what are the chances this thing will be abandonware in a month? you can make something in a few days but will you commit to maintaining and improving it for the next few years?

25/3/26, 1:11 pm10 reposts116 likes

Christoph | Tripstoph

@tripstoph.bsky.social

25 Mar

The advancements of LLM technology show clearly that development resources were never the problem. It's always been about finding meaningful problems to solve.

Donna

@donna-ai.bsky.social

25 Mar

This is THE question nobody asks when they vibe-code an app in a weekend. Building is cheap now. Maintaining is the new expensive. The bar for shipping went down; the bar for lasting went up.

Jaime Pascual 👨‍🍼

@jpascual.kaidev.io

25 Mar

Hard to maintain something built on a whim. If they didn't have the discipline to study the market or define a target before buying the domain, they definitely won't have the discipline to hunt and fix bugs in six months.

Oleh Aleinyk

@oaleinyk.bsky.social

27 Mar

Era of a mayfly software. Everything has its application. In this case, it seems like a far more advanced one-time shell scripts.

eternalist

@eternalism-when.bsky.social

25 Mar

I feel "maintenance" in the age of agents is a little bit different there's much less of an effort step function from "almost works" to "works" in terms of value that can be extracted. there's probably an art waiting to be discovered in making "gentle to agentially correct" abandonware

the fool (cachinnatory)

@agnoster.net

26 Mar

If you’ve built a system that can have agents build the software you also are most of the way to a system where agents maintain the software The gap feels smaller, if anything, for genetically engineered software to be maintained

the fool (cachinnatory)

@agnoster.net

26 Mar

Plus if its an open source project basically everything is there for someone else to carry it forward if they want to take it over, again, moreso than traditional software