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modern app DevOps slog

March 26, 2026Andrej Karpathy, Patrick Collison

Andrej Karpathy says the hardest part of shipping an app is not coding but assembling a stack of services like payments, auth, security, and domains. Patrick Collison amplifies the point as a core pain in indie building.

the hardest part by far was not the code itself
you have to assemble like IKEA furniture to make it real
the DevOps: services, payments, auth, database, security, domain names, etc...
Building a modern app is a bit like assembling IKEA future.
Andrej Karpathy
Patrick Collison
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