Redditor rants: your weekend vibe-coded clone won't kill Adobe or Microsoft
Consistent_Equal5327 · reddit · 2026-10-20
A Reddit user pushes back on the wave of "I built X in 2 hours, RIP [billion-dollar company]" posts: cloning Outlook or Figma was never the hard part — incumbents win on infra, scale, distribution, enterprise contracts, compliance and decades of ecosystem lock-in, not product quality. The author insists they're pro-LLM but anti-hype, calling the sub's self-congratulation a circle jerk and joking it has become Anthropic/OpenAI propaganda.
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