Using LLMs to code is rapidly converging into "programming with natural language" with all drawbacks Dijkstra foresaw and none of the magic big tech promised.

Entrepreneurship is search. The vast majority of new businesses fail and this is the unacknowledged truth.

It's just search, and most people who try will discover ways to fail, not to succeed.

"Skip surgery by getting stabbed in an alley. Doctors hate this weird little trick!"

> it is terrible, shoddy, insecure code, but he proved out a viable business with just a few hundred dollars of investment

I don't think he proved that. In fact the point of the story seems to be the opposite: even if you have a nice looking demo that does the thing, there is a lot of unseen cost to bringing it up to production spec that has to be accounted for.

Google wiped all my codes from their authenticator app

It really drove home that trusting my identity and online presence to these entities that do not care or even know how to be responsible about it is a very bad idea.

Always use an open source OTP app for something like that.

Nowhere near paranoid enough.

Always take the "manual" OTP option, take a backup copy of the code you copy and pasted. I use my password manager

Then, always export the contents of you entire password manager database, encrypt it with the same password you use for you password manager with the pdkf2 rounds set to an absurdly high number and place it in a public place on the internet. Lots of places will host it for free.