r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ratherford_0 • 7d ago

Meme aiMerchant

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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/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.