Have you, though?

Will this stop operating if you unsubscribe from claude?

Will add-on work from chatgpt or Kimi or Qwen require starting from scratch?

Obviously, the answer is 'no'. So regardless of the "do you understand the code" purity test, this is still a net good, both for this customer, and others who can make use of this work.

In some sense yes. If the company invariably finds people are bypassing their subscriptions and shifts to a newer lock-in, you need to go and break it again. Sure you can argue that the usability of the fix will save more than what it costs in subscription or the fixes will work longer etc. But in a way there is a dependency.

That said, > I know people get a bit salty about outsiders coming in and showing stuff they 'built', and it does feel a bit like they shouldn't get the praise for something they basically spent a few evenings prompting into existence

Let's not jump to conclusion about someone's motivation.

i do think as a result of this we are going to see like...rolling api's built into hardware to force people to re-jailbreak whatever device.

Possibly, but people are persistent. Then you'll just see custom firmware, or a hardware drivers. AI makes all that much easier.

> I know people get a bit salty about outsiders coming in and showing stuff they 'built', and it does feel a bit like they shouldn't get the praise

This is why I started saying I've directed a thing instead of saying I built it.

What are you talking about. This software is like the old paid-once Photoshop. Once you have it, _it's yours_. I find that so incredibly liberating, I'm finally making software that I own at the end.

Yeah I get that. I suppose it's just another variant of "I bought a $300 embroidery machine rather than actually learning how to embroider" so in that sense, why not?

Pfft, probably buys their thread at a store rather than planting cotton...

Planting it, in the ground that already existed?

Why aren't they forming their own planetoid?

No, I agree. Everyone has things they want to learn to do and things they just pay for/buy. It's a matter of choice, and should be.