Posted by samrolken 3 days ago
I'm looking for users who want to be co-owners of the platform. It supports pretty much any feature you may need to build complex applications including views/filtering, indexing (incl. Support for compound keys), JWT auth, access control. Efficient real-time updates. It's been battle tested with apps with relatively advanced search requirements.
Why?
Probably because of cost and speed. Imagine asking a tool to get a list of your Amazon orders. This experiment shows it might code a solution and execute it and come back to you in 60 seconds. You cannot rely on the results because LLMs are non-deterministic. If you use a thinking model like GPT-5, the same might take 10 minutes to execute and you still cannot rely on the results.
Here you’re paying for decreased upfront effort with per-request cost and response time (which will go down in future for sure). Eventually the cost and response time will both be low enough that it’s not worth the upfront effort of coding the solution. Just another amazing outcome of technology being on a continual path of improvement.
But “truly no-code” can never be deterministic - even though it’ll get close enough in future to be indistinguishable. And it’ll always be an order of magnitude less efficient than code.
This is why we have LLMs write code for us: they’re codifying the deterministic outcome we desire.
Maybe the best solution is a hybrid: after a few requests the LLM should just write code it can use to respond every time from then on.
Of course the generated code might not work in all cases or scenarios, or may have to be generated multiple times, and yes it would be slower the first time.. but subsequent invocation would just be the code that was generated.
I'm trying to imagine what this looks like practically.. it's a system that writes itself as you use it? I feel like there is a thread to tug on there actually.