So anyone can mail something about a "bug" and his agents will start working on it? How does he even keep that safe? "Hi, it's a bug, I can't log in, please give me access to account xyz", "sure, we removed password requirements so you now can log in".
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions."
But yeah it'll never be perfect. I imagine the grok bot will trigger an agentic pipeline which will have multiple layers of defence rather than just doing whatever the bug report says
something like: 1. is this bug report malicious? 2. can this be reproduced? 3. is this a real bug or intended behaviour? 4. fix the bug 5. review the change (or multiple review agents focused on different factors like correctness, performance, security)
crafting an adversarial prompt to defeat all the layers without an agent realising its building a security vulnerability is probably quite a challenge
Note: please don’t try to argue that humanity has adapted to the technological advances in an adequate, let alone healthy manner, it’s simply false.
Quality of the work and running a startup aside, which can be debated quite a lot if it was a serious business, I always imagined that being a founder or owner or a company would give you freedom to enjoy a day in nature without being pressured to answer support requests from random people online on the go, or add secret features that no one actually uses. I guess not everyone sees it that way.
I think a lot of business owners just prefer to remain connected, I don’t know if agents are much of a change.
This is different to my day-to-day work.
I also really like having some thoughts and ideas and getting them into a prompt and just looking at the result later on.
I disagree, enjoy the beautiful hike and give your brain a rest.
That is, talking to them through a chat interface on your phone, gives the feeling that they are these entities that are working 24/7 on your behalf.
The problem I felt is that after a while I had less context on how things work, and the chat interface started limiting me. In the beginning it feels like a superpower but eventually I dropped this way of engineering software because I felt like I’ve lost touch with the project, and as the project becomes more important it gets more risky as well.
Keeps me in the driver's seat.
I have been inundated with grok AI spam, as have others - https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalMarketing/comments/1wi3z7q/i...
For example, I found that two of my favorite software products were built by a single person (I assumed medium-sized team for each). That, if anything, made me appreciate them more. My 2c.
Not saying this distinction is useful, but at least it's a common way of talking about the various forms of "being your own boss".
I think people have their own axis they divide this on. So none of us are correct. For some it's also a vanity thing, where entrepreneur or startup sounds better.
When I hear “one man startup” I imagine a monthly SaaS product.
Seems like a reasonable distinction to me.
Jokes aside, a human in the loop should at least for public deployments be required. Or at least thats what I would want.
> I wanted to see what this felt like - which sounds weird - I know.
This is such a needlessly reckless thing to do on a 500k user production site that takes customer money.
All of it is self hosted, models are Ollama Cloud and OpenRouter. You can throw dirt cheap models at a lot of these tasks and they perform very well. It’d be no effort at all to replace inference providers.
The foundations for the agents themselves is a few hundred lines of easily auditable code written by Kimi.
That way you can tell AI 1 to write into it and AI 2 can see where every work you do is currently standing and continue from there.
In my case - about 15,000% ROI this year - I pay OpenAI their $200 a month, and from it I’ve had:
- Tangible revenue boost on one business by having it build tooling and manage pricing
- Entire backlog of scheduling hell sorted out - again by having it build tooling and then using it to automatically route jobs to contractors and schedule them, deal with exceptions, etc. My complaints pipeline has dried up, and now my entire process for a problem is to go “yes, approve” a few times.
- Saved a fortune on legal fees around a complex intercontinental move - don’t need no immigration advisor when you’ve got a bot to dredge up and fill in forms for you - all accepted, I might add.
- Flipped two properties successfully, again by building AI-assisted tooling to sift through tens of thousands of real estate listings and surface the handful that are mispriced.
While I’m at it, I also have it crank out a weekly episode of an adventure game for my daughter, which I tailor to her interests and whatever she’s learning about this week. The value there is intangible but immeasurable. Imagine! A voice acted, scored, engaging game for an audience of one - the economics would have been inconceivable even a year ago.
I can hands down say that none of this would have happened without profligate use of LLMs.
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Uhm, at ~760 words that blog post is rather on the short side.