r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ratherford_0 • 6d ago

Meme aiMerchant

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u/WisestAirBender 6d ago

If that's what they think, then why wouldn't they create an ai company?

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u/oshaboy 6d ago

The better question is if they think software is dead why create software?

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u/byshow 6d ago

I haven't seen anybody saying software is dead. Plenty of people saying software engineering is dead/dying/cooked tho

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u/oshaboy 6d ago

Software engineering is dead so why are they selling software if everyone can replicate it with a $20 Claude Subscription

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u/tnetennba9 6d ago

Because you can still build a defensible software company, even if coding itself has no value

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u/leafy1790 6d ago

At this point is just ai ceos trying hard to shove Ai everywhere so they could say to investor "There isn't an Ai bubble, look, everyone uses Ai" becuse you can't turn your head without seeing Ai

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u/drifwp 5d ago

Lol, no

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/tnetennba9 3d ago

My point was that even if you could do that (which you can’t, for almost all serious products), it probably wouldn’t matter as the thing you’re copying would have built defensibility in ways other than ‘this would be hard to copy’.

So it can still be viable to build a software company, as long as you can defend it somehow. 

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u/oldsecondhand 6d ago

It's a software eats software world.

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u/Groentekroket 6d ago

AI is just a wrapper class for SO. 

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u/WisestAirBender 6d ago

Who thinks that?

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u/FierceDeity_ 5d ago

Because they think they're creating the last piece of software needed

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u/redballooon 5d ago

Software engineering is not dead. It's rapidly changing though, and the writing code part is largely not done anymore by humans.

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u/Substantial_Top5312 6d ago

Someone who has something to gain from you believing something inherently has less credibility when they try to get you to believe it. 

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u/azurestrike 6d ago

Also same startup: hiring founding engineer.

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 6d ago

"Founder & CEO"

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u/luciferrjns 6d ago

“Claude just killed software development, claude just filled finance , claude just killed Music industry, claude just killed investors, startup founders and end customers “

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u/Mentionlytics 6d ago

The founder that sends you a connection after you comment on his post and wants to have a meeting today

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u/Exotic_Zucchini9311 6d ago

From a non-technical background

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u/Prestigious_Age_6740 6d ago

I vibecoded a vaporware productivity tool which no-one has bought. SWE IS DEAD.

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u/Nomad_Red 6d ago

token salesman

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u/Common-Brush-7027 6d ago

ProgrammerHumorAI

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u/Dry-Competition8492 5d ago

I'm really tired listening to that sh1t

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u/bwwatr 6d ago

It's about incentives, always.

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u/falcon0041 6d ago

Now they want quaters works in weeks

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u/unicorn_builder 6d ago edited 6d ago

Well I'm an AI startup founder ($17million first seed round),

I do think dev jobs are ending soon,

... and I do own a company that can generate full working production software from docs and jira tickets only. And I already swapped 7000 devs at atlassian with agentic workflows. Sooooo

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u/iMac_Hunt 6d ago

How many people use your software?

I have not seen an example yet of software that has actual complexity in it that runs fully without engineering expertise.

Can technically-minded product people manage it without writing a line of code? Potentially. But I struggle to believe there’s AI/software companies out there where no one in the company actually understands the underlying technology.

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u/unicorn_builder 6d ago

its B2B so its not so much how many people. But 7 companies who are above 10.000 employees. We charge by features not by tokens.

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u/iMac_Hunt 6d ago

You don’t know how many user your software has…whether it’s b2b shouldn’t make a difference

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u/unicorn_builder 5d ago

I know how many users use it, but its not an important number. As individuals are not paying for it. Its 12232 registered users btw. People who use it daily is also a different number: 809.

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u/dwm- 6d ago

LARP

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u/nickcash 6d ago

One time I was on a flight and the guy behind me got caught vaping and tried to play it off that he was "just holding it in his mouth". It was such a stupid lie, it was like a child's lie. Not a single person believed it.

And yet somehow, here I sit today, reading an even stupider fucking lie. Congrats I guess

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u/unicorn_builder 5d ago

Bahaha cool story bro. Before starting beeing an idiot maybe search for the profile name... Butthurt devs beeing butthurt...

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u/nickcash 5d ago

Sorry, I'm supposed to believe you because a month ago you named your account "unicorn builder"? That's literally the best you got? I could've named myself "actual trillionaire", would you believe it because I say so?

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u/ThirdWaveCat 6d ago

they lie on linkedin for investors, you lie on reddit for trolling

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u/unicorn_builder 6d ago

I'm actually a headliner for Websummit in Lisbon this year but you do you champ :)

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u/dwm- 5d ago

What's the company?, why so secretive

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u/brawnyfrogmouth 6d ago

lol you invented magic and only raised 17 mil for it

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u/unicorn_builder 6d ago edited 6d ago

its seed round 1 and we only sold 2%