Self-hosting

I'm also quitting or rather retiring this year. a couple years ago I pivoted from being a contract/consultant dev to doing consultation work to clean up AI slop that various companies produced.

I had hoped that eventually my clients would get it, would realize that utilizing LLMs for end to end builds and vibe coding your way to a final product didn't work but...no...they aren't getting it. They refuse to acknowledge it.

I'm tired. I'm tired of the same song and dance with every client "hey this app we made isn't scaling and there's a lot of issues with it, can you run a code review and tell is where we went wrong?" "sure you used AI to build this from end to end via a vibe coder who doesn't know any of the languages the AI used. you need to start over with actual real devs" and nope. they just find another vibe coder that they feel can write better prompts.

So I'm quitting. I can't do it anymore. I was hoping this bubble would have burst by now but the way, especially recently, companies are fighting tooth and nail to keep these shit producing agents going because they're way too invested now is worrying. IF this bubble bursts it's going to take EVERYONE with it. Everyone. so I'm getting out now and hope my money is still worth something when it does burst.