Thanks for this thread. I'm so tired of reading about yet another "AI wrapper for sending emails" raising a $5M seed round that I almost forgot what actual engineering looks like. The whole industry feels like a Gold Rush right now where 99% of people aren't even trying to mine gold, they're just reselling each other the exact same shovels (LLM APIs) with different logos slapped on them. It's incredibly refreshing to read about people writing Rust parsers or soldering hardware synths