Supervised a project 2 week ago. Two programmers where hired to create an MVP. I have worked with both before.
- Alex from Germany. 100% code. 19 years experience.
- Hamid from Pakistan. Code + Copilot + GPT-4 + no-code. 4 years experience.
What do you think happened?
Closed a huge deal for a friend's company worth $300k. He promissed me 10% cut if I would help him out with the sales.
After the deal closed today, he say that he thinks 30k is to much and only wants to give me 3k.
I just lost a business friend. I can live without 30k but I
A customer subscribed couple of month's ago out of the blue ($800/mo). I ask if he needed help with onboarding or anything. Just got a "no"... but they are using the service lol
Hamid built the UI and front-end workflows in @bubble, generated Cloudflare Workers using GPT-4, integrated existing code using Copilot, and generated tests using GPT-4 (playwright/ava).
He had a talk with Alex about this. His response? "But it will be so much cheaper to run this app, and you'll have everything under control." Not understanding the opportunity costs of shipping 13 times slower and 25 times more expensive to develop.
Sold a 2 year licence to a no-code saas for β¬15k
How the conversation went:
Client: We don't want to buy it for 15k, we only want it for 6 months and pay 5k
Me: We don't offer that. Its 15k for 2 years, paid upfront
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I think people like Hamid will still have work five years from now, while people like Alex will have to find other jobs/professions. What do you think?