“He who controls the spice, controls the universe” I’m have a very cynical viewpoint on this, but I believe it’s a way to get developers and companies so dependent on using these tools to the point that they can’t hope to modify or understand their codebase without them.

@dreamsofcode_io There is no need to do that. Regardless of any dependence, it will be impossible to be competitive or economically viable without these tools.

@PointBlueTech I think there’s enough reasonable doubt to this. We’re assuming building the product is the hardest part of being competitive. It’s a part of the process, but marketing is still the number 1 competitive advantage. Many inferior products have succeeded because of it

I’m making no such assumption. Marketing will be a big effort but your product will never be able to be timely to market or be able to keep up with the pace of change without agentic coding. The world has changed and manual coding is obsolete. Much of your marketing material will also need to be generated by agents as well.