Cheap AI could do to software what Chinese manufacturing did to hardware
SuB8u · x · 2026-10-22
The author draws an analogy: China's cheap manufacturing once enabled a bustling, partly pirated hardware industry (remember "memefacturing"?). Powerful AI systems that enable reverse engineering and drive down the cost of intelligence have the potential to do the same for software — spawning a landscape of fast-copied, reworked software products.
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