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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by swat535 on Monday July 14, 2025 @05:31PM (#44565592)
Forget chat bots, most people will not pay for Software, period.

This is _especially_ true for developers in general, which is very ironic considering how our livelihood is dependent on Software.

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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by ac29 on Monday July 14, 2025 @08:04PM (#44566623)
> Forget chat bots, most people will not pay for Software, period.

Apple says their App Store did $53B in "digital goods and services" the US alone last year. Thats not 100% software, but its definitely more than 0%

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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by oytis on Monday July 14, 2025 @06:13PM (#44565915)
Yeah, cause we want to be in control of software, understandably. It's hard to charge for software users have full control of - except for donations. That's #1 reason for me to not use any gen AI at the moment - I'm keeping an eye on when (if) open-weight models become useful on consumer hardware though.
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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by SJC_Hacker on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @03:02PM (#44574672)
Games are a big exception here, as is anything in the app store.

But productivity software in general, only a few large companies seem to be able to get away with it. The Office Suite, CRM such as SalesForce.

In the graphics world, Maya and 3DS Max. Adobe has been holding on.

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