Agents make app cloning a weekend job — what's still defensible for LLM startups?
SnooDingos9560 · reddit · 2026-10-18
The poster argues that cloning an app's behavior used to take a team but now takes a weekend with agents, reshaping what's defensible for LLM products. Models and prompts clearly aren't moats; their list is distribution, trust, proprietary data, and iteration speed. They ask the community whether anything technical remains hard to copy, or if it's all business moat now.
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