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by ben_talent on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:09AM
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Completely understand. It's up to us to keep shippinh and making this actually good during that time!
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by preetnation on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:02AM
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respect the attitude!
What if the commercial offering was made in less than 2 weeks?
My take on the OP is that its commitment to an idea is what matters, not how quickly its created. I love seeing people insta-clone things but is this a side project that going to see updates for a few weeks or is this something that is going to be maintained actively for years to come.
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by browningstreet on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:41PM
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It's a feature built upon a foundation. Cloning the feature without the foundation isn't the same thing.
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by supriyo-biswas on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:39AM
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The uncomfortable truth is that the marginal cost of producing software (if one doesn't care too much about quality or predictability) has now become near zero with AI; and therefore we will see many companies products being challenged in this way. Of course, Anthropic will have a leg up in terms of subsidized models provided along with a subscription, etc.
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by rhubarbtree on Friday January 16, 2026 @08:51AM
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> the marginal cost of producing software (if one doesn't care too much about quality or predictability) has now become near zero with AI;
Hell of a caveat. I'd also add "complex functionality" to that list.
That's a good idea from the user perspective. I jumped on the aider bandwagon and am now dealing with its relative abandonment and deciding if I want to invest time in a fork.
As a movement though it might be something else. To me, Claude is trying to build a moat around tooling, but due to the nature of their own core product that moat is becoming easier and easier to bridge. What does that mean for them?
Announcements on their own are like whispers.