Simo Ryu, Stable Diffusion LoRA creator, says the cost of translating software ideas into code is approaching zero
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Simo Ryu, the engineer behind the popular open-source LoRA fine-tuning code for Stable Diffusion, posted that turning software ideas into runnable code now costs almost nothing, a change he dates to just the past few months, and declared the arrival of an era centered on ideas rather than execution.
Oddball notions now get cheap trials
One reply noted that many previously ignored or low-value ideas suddenly become worth testing because the overhead of running them has vanished.
Other bottlenecks may still decide outcomes
Thread replies questioned whether cheap execution removes every barrier, pointing out that idea generation was never the sole constraint and that adoption hurdles remain.
Some users are excited about rapidly building working apps via simple AI prompts as execution costs near zero, while many others reject the idea guys era as irrelevant without capital and warn of emotional and financial downsides.
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@cloneofsimo it's amazing how many stupid ideas we have that actually work huh :P
Cost of execution really is approaching absolute zero. Amuzingly it used to be non-zero few months ago. Era of idea guy is here.
@cloneofsimo everyone became an idea guy overnight turns out shipping wasn't the bottleneck, getting anyone to use it was
@cloneofsimo Idea guys are a dime a dozen, execution doesn't change that.
@cloneofsimo wrong, it's the era of those with capital to fund the ideas
@cloneofsimo I built an entire web app this morning before work. Two prompts. Probably could use another prompt to clean stuff up but hey it worked!
@cloneofsimo On AI autopilot it places you in the bottom 30% maybe if you don't do shit, so ideas better be great! If you do shit it's not zero at all and for 95-99% it's maybe even more than 5 years ago
@cloneofsimo The first 90% of the work feels like that but the other 10% will financially and emotionally bankrupt you
@cloneofsimo The cost of execution was never much more than the cost of rope.
@yacineMTB @cloneofsimo