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0 pointsCodingJeebus1mo ago0 comments

Seeing all of these investments in developer tooling projects makes me wonder/skeptical of what the next chapter of development looks like when the money spigot runs dry.

I've not used this app, but I wonder how tooling like this truly competes against an open source community armed with AI. Like where is the moat here, really? I built a personal tool that does some of this with a basic Claude subscription over the course of a few weeks.

Feels like vibe-coders are the real target market for something like this, but if it takes off, would not be that hard to clone as a FOSS app.

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bogwog1mo ago

> Feels like vibe-coders are the real target market for something like this,

I think this is a potentially giant market: incurious people who don't know what they're doing, lack experience and wisdom, and are highly susceptible to empty marketing fluff. Selling junk to these people can't be very difficult, especially if they rely on an LLM (funded by many of the same investors) to explain it to them.

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bogwog1mo ago

> Feels like vibe-coders are the real target market for something like this,

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