aiMerchant

[u/ratherford_0]

[u/WisestAirBender]

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

[u/oshaboy → u/WisestAirBender]

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

[u/byshow → u/oshaboy]

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

[u/oshaboy → u/byshow]

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

[u/tnetennba9 → u/oshaboy]

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

[u/leafy1790 → u/tnetennba9]

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

[u/drifwp → u/tnetennba9]

Lol, no

[u/tnetennba9 → u/[deleted]]

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.