Reddit debate: when AI can clone your product in a day, what moat is left?
ummetinlideri · reddit · 2026-10-16
A Reddit user argues the latest models need so few tokens to build a product, and copying via reverse engineering is so easy, that building unique software is losing its value. He extends the argument to big companies like Adobe: with Claude doing design and thousands of open-source alternatives, incumbents lose users and won't spend tokens either. The thread asks what the end game looks like for the software industry.
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