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I don't disagree but for some of the examples given (YouTube, Instagram, X.com) a huge entry barrier is the network effect. Even if AI could perfectly clone these products in a day, that still doesn't translate to instant market share.
My office has cut down SaaS costs by a couple of tens of grand a year, simply by making our own versions using LLMs. It is not that we didn't have the expertise to do so to begin with, but it would simply have been too expensive and time consuming. That was solved once the models became good enough. There's a lot of money in the SaaS world, where the products are both unglamorous and one-trick pony-ish. Making your p…
The vibe-coded demos everyone's tired of are code with no environmental need pulling on them.
The issue is most of these demo are created by developers. Most of the developers don't have interests or skills in product and design. So they use AI to write code, not build product. Another mistake everyone making is not building better and bigger products. What is used to take a month to develop is now possible in few days but most don't put the same effort as before to make bigger and better products. They just…
I've found the opposite to be trie very often.
The issue is most of these demo are created by developers. Most of the developers don't have interests or skills in product and design. So they use AI to write code, not build product. Another mistake everyone making is not building better and bigger products. What is used to take a month to develop is now possible in few days but most don't put the same effort as before to make bigger and better products. They just…
> developers don't have interests or skills in product and design I've found the opposite to be trie very often.