Why Cloning Manus Is Pointless: Tech Has No Moat, Brand Trust Does
dotey · x · 2026-11-03
Noting Manus's Electron client and custom LLM API support make its prompts, skills, and harness logic nearly transparent to experts, dotey argues technical moats are gone in the AI era — but cloning Manus is still pointless. Users choose products based on brand trust, and copycats will always trail half a step behind without understanding the reasoning behind product decisions.
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