As Claude Code and Codex get scary good, what's left for small teams building agent products?
oliver_dev · reddit · 2026-09-11
A Reddit developer observes that many 'build an agent that does X' startup ideas now feel one Anthropic/OpenAI release away from being absorbed into Claude Code or Codex. He asks small teams (5-100 people) and solo builders where real openings remain: what people actually use daily beyond these tools, unsolved small-business pain points, and whether anyone is making money on the layer around agents — cost monitoring, multi-agent orchestration, and knowing when NOT to use one.
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