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This is a pretty wild claim, so I think it is fair to be critical of the examples given:

- Driftless sounds like it might be better as a claude code skill or hook

- Deploycast is an LLM summarization service

- Triage also seems like it might be more effective inside CC as a skill or hook

In other words all these projects are tooling around LLM API calls.

What was valuable was the commitment. The grit. The planning, the technical prowess, the unwavering ability to think night and day about a product, a problem space, incessantly obsessing, unsatisfied until you had some semblance of a working solution. It took hustle, brain power, studying, iteration, failures.

That isn't going to go away. Here's another idea: a discussion tool for audio workflows. Pre-LLMs the difficult part of something like this was never code generation.

This is a pretty wild claim

Treat it rhetorically.

There can be no question that the cost coefficients of Ideas vs. Execution have changed, with LLMs

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