Oh my, inspecting the page gave me a warm, cozy, nostalgic feeling and made me feel grateful for all the meals <table>s just like that put on my family's table throughout the late 90s and early 2000s.
Yeah make it work in the US where you can fly 4 hours in any direction and still land somewhere that speaks the same language, and not in Europe where a 1:30h drive takes you through 3 different countries that don't know how to talk to each other...
In my experience, non-coders with LLMs can go beyond simple scripts and build non-trivial small applications nowadays, but the difference of outcomes between them and a competent coder with LLMs is still staggering.
The article misses the point that LLMs are not removing the bottleneck of writing code for people who know how to write code. It's removing this bottleneck for everyone else.
Start-ups don't get 1-2 chances to get productivity right.
They get 1-2 chances to get PRODUCT right.
If they don't get productivity right from the get-go, they only get 1 chance instead of the "1-2 chances".
That's the risk most individuals don't like about startups, if productivity is not a centerpiece of their operation, the leadership pushes for the only other solution they believe: long hours in inhumane working conditions.
I don't believe there's causation between a start-up productivity and their product success, but I would love to be proven wrong.
I lost 3 minutes of my life on that article and will lose 5 more to let you know you can skip it.
It's just a rant from someone that thinks they're too good to be managed, probably that kind of engineer that has 10 conflicts a week with everyone in the company because they won't budge on their unfounded personal opinions.