I just want to rant because I’m getting tired of some things lately.
In the last six months, it’s become increasingly exhausting to browse online if you follow content about web development, software, or LLMs.
Every two weeks, some new LLM model drops, and then everyone rushes in to run 100 benchmarks that are about as relevant as a bag of peas forgotten in the freezer.
And once they’re done with all the benchmarks and the “X is dead!!!” posts (where X is Figma, programming, design, systems engineering, front-end, back-end, lawyers, consulting, juniors, seniors), they move on to building one-shot applications from a single prompt.
After they’ve exhausted all the to-do apps, health monitors, push-up counters using your phone camera, business idea validators, fake dashboards, and other LLM service wrappers, they start posting either Google Search Console screenshots showing how they got 1-2 million impressions in 30 days, or Stripe dashboards with very real transactions from very real customers for their even more real product. All so they can sell you an AI usage/optimization course.
How many Claude token usage monitor widgets do we need to keep making?! I think I’ve seen at least 100 variations.
What I’m trying to say is that it’s getting more and more exhausting to scroll through Reddit, for example, and see all the posts in /r/micro_saas/, /r/vibecoding/, /r/webdev/, /r/LocalLLaMA/, /r/vibeCodeDevs/, /r/ClaudeAI/. The dedicated model forums already feel like you’re looking at a cult.
The same post regurgitated across every forum. Just because it’s easy to build something doesn’t mean you should, especially when the app has 0 users and solves 0 actual problems. A solution to a non-existent problem isn’t a solution.
At the end of the day, use whatever model you want, it won’t matter once Le Chaton Fat drops.
P.S.: If Claude starts asking for ID verification to use it, tough luck for them.