From Selfies to WhatsApp Reactions

We are in a age where rapid product creation is possible. Code is no longer the bottleneck.

Using agents like Hermes, Codex and OpenCode with subsidized LLM models gives you the possibility to create anything. I don't know how long the gravy train is going to last (these subscriptions are money losers) but for now you can flip between gpt, grok, kimi, glm etc. across various providers and build whatever idea comes to mind.

So I present you with another silly app dizzzy.lol.

Built on the same Rust/Svelte stack as the defunct ResumoFII, this app is a template based selfie-to-animated reaction gif generator you can use in your group chats.

Animations are sold via so called Reaction Packs. They get queued and picked up using async rust via Tokio. Selfies get processed in a pipeline that takes an image as input, does preprocessing, animation and final gif and mp4 rendering, but again the technical challenge can now be handled by the models.

You're just reviewing, directing and checking the design so you understand how the code works. The problem now becomes the following. If the cost of software goes to zero and everybody has the ability, through LLMs, to breath every product idea to life, what becomes the actual differentiator if everyone can just outsource their specific use case to a model?

I am seeing this at work where everyone is being encouraged to share apps, skills and tools generated by models. You get large internal marketplaces of usable artifacts but in the end I don't use any of those. I just create my own personal stack tailored to my idiosyncratic way of working and everybody else can do the same. And as models continue to get smarter and properly use memory to remember how you want to work I see less need for these types of hacks.

The products can be pumped out on a continuous pipeline, just token max different models and get the desired output. But will they survive in an ever expanding sea of output published to the internet and private marketplaces?

Should most of these products, including dizzzy.lol even exist?

That's the question I have in my mind, while I churn out things just because I can and because it's fun, but at some point we need to get back to reality.

Also distribution is a bitch.

Anyways, back to the pipeline because I'm already jumping on the next thing.