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Comment by jjmarr

8 days ago

It's pretty depressing yet motivating seeing SWE bifurcate.

This is an app that would've normally had a dozen or so people behind it, all acquihired by OpenAI to find the people who really drove the project.

With AI, it's one person who builds and takes everything.

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Aurornis  8 days ago

> This is an app that would've normally had a dozen or so people behind it, all acquihired by OpenAI to find the people who really drove the project.

Acquihires haven't worked that way for a while. The new acquihire game is to buy out a few key execs and then have them recruit away the key developers, leaving the former company as a shell for someone else to take over and try to run.

Also OpenClaw was not a one-person operation. It had several maintainers working together.