Dev: Attribution Etiquette Is Dying as Agents Can Clone Any SaaS in an Hour
cephaloform · x · 2026-10-03
Developer spiritbuun reflects on suffering from unattributed code "theft" and why he stopped caring: when anyone can point an agent at your code and say "I want mine like that," attribution etiquette collapses. Beyond open source, binaries can now be distilled, and Claude can rebuild an entire SaaS from a URL in an hour. "There is no moat" — heads-down engineers risk becoming a "permanent underclass" even in niche domains as harnesses and models improve. Quoter JoelDeTeves pushes back: all competition is good — controversy drives attention, conflict, competition, and innovation; vote with your wallet or your VRAM, and credits the open quant community's contributors.
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