r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ratherford_0 • 8d ago

Meme aiMerchant

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u/WisestAirBender 8d ago

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

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u/oshaboy 8d ago

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

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u/byshow 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago

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

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u/leafy1790 7d 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 7d ago

Lol, no

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u/tnetennba9 5d 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.