Not everone is a "photographer". People have phones, which happen to have cameras, who experience events in their lives that they want to capture and save for later. Photographer here, 20 years.

One week ago I started making apps. I’ve already made one bespoke app that is serving my own needs and has increased productivity. I’m also close to completing a second one that could potentially save my wife’s business 2 days worth of work per week. The key is having an instinct for system design, workflow and project management. Not coding and engineering.

Lol....Yes, that is my point. Creating pictures was democratised and put into the pocket of nearly every person in the world. The same is going to happen with building apps and coding.

Facts!

also imagine thinking taking a photo is as hard or delicate as building software that controls airplanes

this misses the point I was making: View quoted note →

Exactly right. Architects don't know how to weld, paint, plumb or build a brick wall. That's the job of welders, painters, plumbers or bricklayers. Today, whoever has design and project management skills, can become a software development company by himself. And this is applicable to nany other industries.

I vibe coded a NanoClaw agent and gave it a Nostr account. Initially to see if I could, not sure ultimately what its use will be, but definitely not controlling airplanes. What do you think @Fairlane 5000 do you want to fly?

The only problem for jb55 is that it will be a lot less than 15 years to make him expendable.

What workflow/tools do you use?

Yep. It’s wild. What’s also interesting is it might end up being the more artistic, less technical people that come up with the best ideas and use cases. In the space of two weeks, I now have a team of agents working for me full time. I’ve made three apps that work really well, and I’m having jaw dropping moments several times a day. I’m struggling to sleep due to all the opportunity and ideas buzzing round my head.

I upgraded my server just before Christmas (and before the price hikes) so I’ve got decent hardware. I’m running Proxmox with a variety of VMs. For the Ai stuff (which lives on a separate VLAN), I have spun up a new VM for each of the agents and my main one, Eve, orchestrates everything and does ops. Then one agent is a builder, one is a researcher, and one is my social media guy (although I’ve not done anything with that one yet). I’m using Openclaw and setting it up the first time was a bit tricky, but after that Eve does it for me. For the LLM I’m running a local one through Ollama, but the main one I’m using is gpt 5.4. If you have a chat GPT account you can log into Openclaw through the codex oauth, so I’m not wracking up big API bills. So far I’ve built an app for my wife’s business. A creative assistant to help me develop my ideas for YouTube videos, particularly around titles and thumbnails. And there’s a simple app that is basically project management and research. If it sounds like I know what I’m doing, I don’t. I just had a go and put in the time.

Have you published any of these or they are for private use only?

They’re just private at the moment.

The hardware sounds pricey tho 🤔

Ha. Only because it’s upgradable, and I keep putting more stuff in it!!