Comment by raw_anon_1111
1 day ago
What I don’t understand is that how is this automatically good for startups?
Say I have a startup that vibe codes “AI for real estate”. What about customer acquisition?
On the other hand, if I’m Zillow, why can’t I just throw a developer on the same feature and automatically have a customer base for it?
If you look at most of the YC funded startups these days, they are just prompt engineers with no go to market strategy and some don’t even have any technical people and are looking for “technical cofounders” that they can underpay with a promise of equity that will statistically be meaningless.
Yap, AI coding will just help monopolize positions lol.
Clay Christenson in the “Innovators Dilemma” would call AI a “sustaining innovation” not a “disruptive innovation”.
At the end of the day. Open AI is losing billions of dollars and Google caught up while still seeing record revenues and profits using its own infrastructure and TPUs
Even the laggard Apple is reportedly just going to throw a billion (chump change) at Google for its model and keep selling phones and other hardware while OpenAI is reportedly working on a “smart egg”