If AI is meant to orchestrate complex workflows and abstract away friction, why are we mainly using it to optimize our own dev workflows while leaving the actual customer-facing product as clunky as ever?

​Right now, it feels like there’s a massive disconnect:

​Internally: Engineers are using AI to automate boilerplate, orchestrate tasks, and eliminate layers of manual effort.

​Externally: We’re still shipping traditional, click-heavy SaaS interfaces designed to maximize seat licenses, dashboards, and engagement metrics.

​We’re happily using AI to make our lives effortless, yet we protect the traditional SaaS money-making machine instead of using that same AI to make the end-user experience actually efficient.

​Are we just building tools for ourselves because it's comfortable, or are we afraid that truly automating the user's job kills the per-seat SaaS business model?

I am . Net developer but my real concern comes here after I really need to upgrade my computer and I have a thought going on , I don't really rely on windows operating laptops and Want a Mac but the internet has a issue and that is what if you are a .net developer ?

If I had to start from zero today and build a business selling AI built websites, this is exactly how I'd approach it.

The biggest mistake I see beginners make is spending weeks learning how to build websites without actually trying to find customers.

I'd focus on sales from day one.

1. Pick an industry

Don't try to sell to everyone. Pick a few industries where businesses rely heavily on their websites.

Some examples are construction companies, cleaning companies, restaurants, dentists and real estate agencies.

Having a specific target market makes prospecting and selling much easier.

2. Find businesses with outdated websites

I wouldn't focus on businesses that don't have websites. I'd look for companies that already have one but could benefit from a redesign.

They already understand the value of having a website. You just need to show them how it could be better.

3. Automate your outreach

This is how I'd find potential customers at scale.

I'd use Swokei to find businesses, analyze their websites for issues with design, SEO, speed and mobile optimization, and turn those findings into personalized cold emails.

Connect your mailboxes, set up your campaigns and start reaching out.

4. Create website drafts using AI

When someone shows interest, get them on a call.

Before the meeting, spend around 30 minutes creating a redesigned version of their existing website using AI.

You don't need to build the entire thing. Just give them something visual that shows what their new website could look like.

5. Learn how to sell

This is probably the most important part.

Learn how to run sales calls, understand what the business needs and present your work properly.

Don't just sell a prettier website. Explain why the redesign is valuable to their business.

6. Charge properly and scale

I'd aim for $2,000–$5,000 per project when starting out, depending on the scope and quality of the work.

Once you have experience, testimonials and a portfolio, increase your prices.

Eventually, hire people to handle the actual website development so you can focus on finding clients and growing the business.

What I'd focus on

If I were starting tomorrow, I'd spend most of my time finding prospects, sending outreach, booking meetings and learning how to close deals.

Building websites is only one part of this business. Knowing how to consistently find customers and sell your services is what makes it profitable.

That's where I'd put my attention from day one.

When you have Claude/Codex/whatever implement the code, what are you doing while it’s working?

Hi I am looking for clients for my web development business. Since I am just starting out my rates are rather reasonable, can someone recommend any good clients or help me find any.

Es ce que ça sera intéressant de créer une application qui surveille votre téléphone ou ordinateur en permanence et qui détecte les emails frauduleux, les faux liens de paiement, les faux messages de paiement, les messages, emails ou liens d'arnaque...

hi geeks

• i love building software to solve real problems or to fulfill needs and all techs and engineering genuinely , i had built a couple projects as a hobby in topics i got interested in along the way

• months ago i decided i have to to work as a freelance programmer, but not in the known form

• i dont want to work through the freelance platforms , i dont want tasks and deadlines

• freelancing is business anyway so , i want to find a problem and build the software that helps solving that problem , solving the problem is not all software and i just love put myself in someone's shoes and to start from there

• i already decided the first project ( problem ) and studied all it and will start soon

the advice i need

i need to hear from someone who did that before or something like that, how it all started and what to to do and how it is going

I’ve been watching the agent hype, and honestly, half of these "autonomous" setups just loop forever or hallucinate. Meanwhile, a simple 10-line Python script with a direct API call does the exact same job reliably.

Am I missing something? When is an "agent" actually better than just writing a deterministic script?

Genuinely curious, not trying to hate.

hello guys i am developer so i need to search for cheap and good vps for me ubuntu i am saw hostinger plans and ovh and other hosting plateform but i think its exp a bit so if there is any other website could you pleease provided to me
so my projects usually web apps with nodejs expressjs restApi and in frontend nextjs thats it so i need t a VPS to host & deploy those projects
thanks a lot for your help

Mine is the designer

Ok I need to rant because I'm losing my mind.

I've noticed this absurd dynamic happening everywhere, both in code and in writing

In code

• Write clean, orderly, well-structured code? "AI definitely wrote that"

• Write slightly rough code, with some shortcuts, messy comments? "This is a junior, doesn't know better"

• And if you have years of experience and write well? "Ah, so you're a junior who only uses ChatGPT"

In writing (books, comix etc)

• Use correct grammar, well-built sentences? "This is AI-generated"

• Write with errors, slang, fragments? "Writes badly, unprofessional"

The result is they force you to write badly on everything, but if you write badly you write like shit. It's a Kafkaesque double bind.

In companies it's a total pain:

• Write well (code or docs) → you're a junior using AI.

• Write badly → you're just a junior, even with 10 years of experience.

• There's no middle ground where "you write well because you have experience." No: either you're a fake, or you're incompetent.

And the worst part is grammar is dead. People now associate "well-written text" with "generated text." So humans who can actually write have to make their style worse to seem authentic. While people who write like shit get rewarded because "it feels human."

What the fuck kind of logic is that?

I am a SDE1 Java Backend Software Developer in Service Based MNC with 2.5 yoe. In my project team, we heavily using Agentic AI to automate features implementation & bug fix. In coming years, I already got confirmation that there's won't be SDE1 & SDE2 roles.

I already done Claude certification, learnt Docker & K8s.

Repeatedly asking what to learn for Java Backend roles.
Expecting SDE without full stack is very hard now. If I have taken React/Angular, already heavy competition in frontend and so many tasks are automated by AI.

If I have to learn AI, ML, Agentic AI then I have to start from scratch. From Python, ML theory, DL, Agentic etc. It'll take months.

I observed many job descriptions with frontend technology mentioned.

At present I only focusing on DSA since a year, spending more time on it. Exploring several techniques.

What to learn in this economy to survive AI layoffs?
Which technology to learn? Is Java Backend developers able to switch to other companies in this economy?

I got a point that, by the time I got 10+ years' experience, there'll be lakhs of people in IT (below 2020 batch as lead & manager roles.) and expecting higher salary. MNCs may cut entry roles or higher roles. That's how also we've to face layoffs in addition to AI layoffs.
Is it better to go for higher studies like MTech or MS now?

Not promoting my product. Just thinking of framing it as “contracting testing for agent memory” but wondering if people even know what that is outside of enterprise developers.

I'm a 28 year old software developer who has been struggling to find job for years. When finding a job became increasingly difficult, I decided to pursue something I've always been passionate about: game development. I started about a year ago.

During that time, AI has advanced at an incredible pace. Seeing things I've spent an entire year working on recreated by Claude in just a few minutes can sometimes be genuinely discouraging.

But I have no intention of giving up on software engineering. It's not just a career path for me; it's something I genuinely love and want to pursue. I'm doing my best to strengthen my fundamentals and learn the architectures and technologies I'll need to bring my dream game to life. Sometimes, I even find myself questioning how much of what I've learned I truly understand.

I believe that one day I'll start my own software company. But for now, I'll keep chasing that dream, most likely while working a physically demanding job with long hours (cashier).

I want to reach out to other developers who are going through tough times like me: Don't lose hope. Keep learning, keep building, and keep moving forward. We can learn from each other's experiences and maybe even find ways to support one another along the way.

My DMs are open to anyone who wants to talk, share their struggles, or exchange ideas.

Hey everyone!

I'm currently looking to buy a new MacBook (never had one before), but I'm having a really hard time deciding between the 15-inch MacBook Air and the 14-inch MacBook Pro.

I'm currently working as a junior software developer, and besides my day-to-day work, I'd really like to get more into programming private projects, working with Docker and exploring AI development.

My main dilemma is the screen size. I really like the idea of having a bigger 15-inch display, especially since I would probably use the MacBook on its own quite often. However, if I decide to go with a 14-inch display, I'd probably choose the MacBook Pro rather than the Air.

I'm wondering whether the MacBook Air 15" would be powerful enough for my use case, or whether I'd be better off investing in a MacBook Pro 14".

A few things I'd love to hear your opinions on:

• Is the 15-inch MacBook Air powerful enough for software development, Docker and running multiple development tools?

• Would the lack of active cooling (no fan) become an issue during longer or more demanding workloads?

• Is the MacBook Pro worth the extra money for a junior developer who wants to get more serious about programming and AI?

• How important is RAM for this kind of use? Would you prioritize more RAM over a better chip?

• For those who own either model, how do you feel about the screen size for everyday development?

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who use their MacBooks for software development, Docker and similar workloads.

Thanks in advance!

This is more of a subjective thing, but i created a tool of my own but not sure if others feel the same issue with their agentic development setup.

Do you all get comfortable with, say claude code, but also have multiple subscriptions, and if you want to use multiple providers, you always have to give up your comfortable harness and go to something different, like T3 Code or something.

Do you ever feel like i wanna use claude's models for planning and say, antigravity's flash models for writing manual code, just like you could in T3 Code, but without needing to step out of claude code??

something like this?

`github.com/anthonyleung-dev/harness-summit`

Asking because i am working on something similar for myself, this tool doesn't have enough features which i want, and was wondering would others benefit from it, or any specific features i should add.

I will share the repository based on the response on this post.

Yesterday i forgot to solve problems to keep my streak and broken on 101.

Is there any way to fix/restore please help friends.

Currently working as a fullstack developer ( 2.5 YOE) , but since the start i have felt coding to be boring and with the rise lf AI scared as well.

So i was thinking to learn about hardware a little about ESP32, Raspberry , do some handful of projects in my freetime. But how difficult woll kt be to switch from a pure software to a little bit about hardware and maybe change career as well.

As for my background I am a Computer Engineer graduate.

So I set up email automation for a friend of mine, and things got a little interesting.

Both of us are web designers, and we're constantly looking for new clients. I personally get most of my clients through cold email automation, while he had tried doing it himself once but never really got it working.

So he came up with a deal. If I set up his entire email outreach system using his own mailboxes and helped him land clients, he'd give me 50% of every website project he closed.

Naturally, I agreed.

I used Swokei, a tool that finds businesses, analyzes their websites for issues with design, SEO, speed and mobile optimization, and turns those findings into personalized cold emails at scale, so I didn't have to write them myself.

I created his account, connected his mailboxes, set everything up and launched the campaign.

After just 300 emails sent, he started getting interested replies at a 4% rate. That's 12 people who expressed interest.

To be honest, it was one of the best-performing campaigns I've set up in just one week.

Now you're probably wondering how much money I made from this arrangement.

Well, remember that 50% we agreed on?

Yeah, I didn't get that. He gave me 10% on his first two sales, and I stopped managing his campaigns after that. 😂😭

Guys, I'm honestly going crazy.

I joined a new job just 2 months ago, and everything is vibe coded. Literally everything. I haven't written a single line of code by hand since I started.

I'm a junior developer, and this is my first job in the field. This is seriously worrying me because of my future. My boss and the company fully support this vibe coding approach, so I don't think that's going to change.

I need advice on what to do. How can I actually gain real development skills in this environment so I can eventually move to a decent company?

What would you do in my situation?

Salam everyone! 👋

I’m currently a Master’s student in Information Systems & Intelligent Systems (Data Science / AI background), and I have some free bandwidth outside of classes to build cool stuff and collaborate with other motivated people here.

Instead of just building solo in my corner, I’d love to join an existing side project, co-build a micro-SaaS, or team up for open-source tools and hackathons.

What I bring to the table (Tech Stack):

• AI, Data & Automation: Python, Machine Learning (predictive modeling, scikit-learn), NLP, Web Scraping (Selenium, BeautifulSoup), n8n workflow automation, Botpress, and running/orchestrating local LLMs (Ollama, open-source models).

• Full-Stack & DevOps: Django REST Framework, React (Vite), PHP/Laravel, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Docker, and Git.

Stuff I’ve built recently (to give you an idea):

• An automated disinformation/fake-news detection pipeline using chatbots and n8n workflows.

• An urban traffic prediction and route optimization system using ML regressors and graph algorithms.

• E-commerce data scraping and analytics platforms.

What I’m looking for:

• Someone who already has a project/idea in progress and needs a technical partner (Backend, AI/Automation, or Full-Stack).

• Or a small group of builders who want to brainstorm and ship a practical tool (AI agents, B2B automation, data tools, etc.) for the local or global market.

If you're working on something interesting or want to build together, drop a comment or shoot me a DM! Let's connect.

I'm currently developing my skills in AI-Powered Full Stack Development, with the goal of building a career as a freelance developer.

As I learn, I want to share short, practical breakdowns of how I approach business problems before thinking about code, tools or technology.

One thing I'm particularly interested in understanding is the relationship between clients' expectations and developers' responsibilities.

In your experience, what do clients most often misunderstand about hiring a developer?

For example:

• Do they focus too much on the application rather than the problem it should solve?

• Do they underestimate the importance of defining requirements?

• Do they expect technology to solve problems that actually require process improvements?

• Do they overlook maintenance, security and long-term scalability?

I'd particularly appreciate perspectives from experienced freelancers, developers and clients.

I'm here to learn, ask better questions and develop a practical understanding of what makes software projects successful.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Hey everyone,

I'm building Thunder, a high-performance key-value database designed for workloads where latency, throughput, and efficient resource utilization matter.

With AI applications, we're seeing increasing amounts of data being generated, stored, and retrieved. I wanted to explore whether we could build a database from the ground up that handles these workloads more efficiently, rather than simply relying on larger amounts of RAM.

The core idea is simple: use RAM intelligently, not excessively.

Thunder is being built in Rust with a few architectural decisions:

• Shard-per-core architecture: Each core owns its data, minimizing contention and synchronization overhead.

• Asynchronous I/O: Uses io_uring on Linux to take advantage of modern NVMe storage.

• Minimal RAM overhead: Keep essential metadata and indexes in memory while streaming data from storage through reusable buffers.

• Zero-copy wherever possible: Reduce unnecessary memory copies and allocations.

• Custom storage engine: Designed around efficient allocation, fragmentation management, and predictable performance.

• High concurrency: Handle large numbers of concurrent operations without relying on traditional locking across the entire database.

The long-term goal is to support both small, latency-sensitive operations and large data workloads without requiring enormous amounts of memory.

It's still under development, and I'm experimenting with different approaches to storage, indexing, caching, and I/O scheduling.

I'd love to hear from people building AI infrastructure or working with large-scale key-value stores.

What are the biggest bottlenecks you're facing with your current databases? Is it memory consumption, read latency, write throughput, storage costs, or something else?

Also, what would you expect from a new key-value database built specifically with AI workloads in mind?

Docker Hub: Thunderstrike

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on something called Dyno – a desktop application that brings the iPhone's Dynamic Island experience to Windows 10/11.

The idea was simple: why should iPhone users have all the fun? So I decided to build something similar for Windows!

✨ What Dyno can do:

🎵 Now Playing – Displays music playback information from Spotify and other media players.

🎤 Synced Lyrics – Shows live, time-synchronized lyrics while you're listening to music.

🔊 Volume HUD – Beautiful animated volume controls.

☀️ Brightness HUD – Displays brightness adjustments.

🔋 Battery Alerts – Animated charging and low-battery notifications.

⏱️ Timer – A built-in countdown with a progress indicator.

👀 Interactive Eyes – When Dyno is idle, a pair of eyes follows your mouse cursor.

Everything lives inside a small, floating black pill at the top of your screen, with smooth animations and expandable interactions.

This is an indie project I've been developing, and I'm still improving the UI, animations and overall experience.

I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback!

What features would you like to see added to Dyno?

Link: dyno-island.vercel.app

Thanks for checking it out! ❤️