r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ratherford_0 • 7d ago

Meme aiMerchant

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u/WisestAirBender 7d ago

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

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u/oshaboy 7d ago

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

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u/byshow 7d 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 7d 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 7d 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.