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  1. danpalmer · · focus · HN ↗
    This is exactly the sort of software that was hard to prioritise before LLMs, and trivial to build with LLMs.

    There's nothing interesting going on here, and I don't mean that as a criticism. There's a clear schema, no particularly clever UX needed, you can build almost all of this out of standard UI components, and the problem is well defined.

    The only challenge is the actual time input for coding, and that's mostly gone today.

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      1. danpalmer · · focus · HN ↗
        This proves my point. This is a hobby-build, because it wouldn&#x27;t be prioritised for most businesses (including Apple, clearly), and it was launched in Dec 2025 so was almost certainly significantly built by LLMs.

        I&#x27;m not saying that these tools didn&#x27;t exist (there are better examples than this one), but hobbyist, or open-source tools are examples of the prioritisation not mattering. Most of the little projects I&#x27;ve built outside of work have been objectively terrible uses of time for the result.

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