Most people are consumers, not builders — why 'AI can build it' won't kill all software businesses
max_paperclips · x · 2026-10-01
Responding to @wagslane's claim that "if AI can create it end to end, you're not gonna be able to sell it," maxpaperclips pushes back with analogies: anyone can make YouTube videos, run a personal site, draw, or raise chickens — yet the vast majority never do. Most people are consumers, and that's fine. A well-built, curated tool will beat randomly slopped-together outputs every time; the vibecoding techbro bubble on Twitter isn't representative of mainstream behavior.
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