I like this article more than I like Immich. It’s well structured, helpful, and kind (not that Immich isn’t those things).

I feel like Futo is going in the wrong direction. In the age of AI, anyone can write a DB query, anyone can design a simple UI, and with docker the structure of hosting is no longer a barrier.

I think Futo and Immich should be focusing on data itself. Export, import, store, parse metadata, process, suggest relationships

If a thousand people ask an AI for a generic photo app, that's not only a huge waste of time and money, a lot of them are going to experience data loss because of it. And only a couple will know how to use docker.

Everyone can write it, sure. You can even maintain it. You just can’t do it for every single SaaS service in your life, it’s not sustainable for most.

The sane approach is: Is there something out there with a solid community that fulfils this need? If yes, let’s not vibe code project N.

I think there is this huge wave of projects which will die off when the devs realise the time it takes to maintain it, even with AI.

The amount of code produced will remain significantly higher than before AI, but it will go down a bit, compared to the peak (and I’m not sure we’ve reached peak)