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> Apparently they told it to build a Slack clone and left it unattended for 30 hours, and it built a Slack clone using 11,000 lines of code it's going to be a

by zmmmmm 1y ago

> Apparently they told it to build a Slack clone and left it unattended for 30 hours, and it built a Slack clone using 11,000 lines of code it's going to be an issue I think, now that lots of these agents support computer use, we are at the point where you can install an app, tell the agent you want something that works exactly the same and just let it run until it produces it. The software world may find it's got more in common with book authors than they thought sooner rather than later once full clones of popular apps are popping out of coding tools. It will be interesting to see if this results in a war of attrition with counter measures and strict ToU that prohibit use by AI agents etc.

stravant 1y ago
That just means that owning the walled gardens and network effects will become yet more important.
walthamstow 1y ago
It has been trivial to build a clone of most popular services for years, even before LLMs. One of my first projects was Miguel Grinberg's Flask tutorial, in which a total noob can build a Twitter clone in an afternoon. What keeps people in are network effects and some dark patterns like vendor lock-in and data unportability.
- supern0va 1y ago
  There's a marked difference between running a Twitter-like application that scales to even a few hundred thousand users, and one that is a global scale application. You may find quickly that, network effects aside, you would find yourself crushed under the weight and unexpected bottlenecks of that network you desire.
  - walthamstow 1y ago
    Agreed entirely but not sure that's relevant in what I'm replying to. > we are at the point where you can install an app, tell the agent you want something that works exactly the same and just let it run until it produces it That won't produce a global-scale application infrastructure either, it'll just reproduce the functionality available to the user.

by zmmmmm 1y ago

stravant 1y ago

That just means that owning the walled gardens and network effects will become yet more important.

walthamstow 1y ago

It has been trivial to build a clone of most popular services for years, even before LLMs. One of my first projects was Miguel Grinberg's Flask tutorial, in which a total noob can build a Twitter clone in an afternoon. What keeps people in are network effects and some dark patterns like vendor lock-in and data unportability.

supern0va 1y ago
There's a marked difference between running a Twitter-like application that scales to even a few hundred thousand users, and one that is a global scale application. You may find quickly that, network effects aside, you would find yourself crushed under the weight and unexpected bottlenecks of that network you desire.
- walthamstow 1y ago
  Agreed entirely but not sure that's relevant in what I'm replying to. > we are at the point where you can install an app, tell the agent you want something that works exactly the same and just let it run until it produces it That won't produce a global-scale application infrastructure either, it'll just reproduce the functionality available to the user.