Building Is Absurdly Cheap in the AI Era — So Why Does Founding Feel So Weird?
JnBrymn · x · 2026-10-06
In a candid essay, Greg Ceccarelli argues AI has made building absurdly cheap — one person can now do what took a team — but flooded the world with noise: competitors can clone 80% of your product over a weekend from a single tweet, and inboxes fill with AI-generated outreach. The deeper anxiety is existential: why build anything if models or Anthropic/OpenAI can wipe it out in three months? His answer: fear wasting your life more than embarrassing yourself, and focus on what's actually durable and monetizable.
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