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Asking for a friend who’s working on a startup around this general space: do you think it’s better to go niche, focusing on agents for a specific type of applic
by wslh 8mo ago
Asking for a friend who’s working on a startup around this general space: do you think it’s better to go niche, focusing on agents for a specific type of application or a specific language/ecosystem, or is that effectively “killing the startup” by limiting market size too soon?
Another question that came up in conversations with them: there might be value in offering a nonscalable, high-touch service, where you build and maintain customized agents tailored to a client’s specific codebase on a periodic basis.
- tptacek 8mo agoI think it's probably a bad idea to do an "AI looking for vulnerabilities" startup, since the frontier labs have all basically declared that they believe that's a feature of a coding agent and not a standalone product.
- dboreham 8mo agoNo dog in this fight but the frontier labs might suck at marketing to such customers, and such at servicing their needs.
- wslh 8mo agoI think so, and also the startup is not about scaling massively. It is about adding value (customizing security AI for specific codebases).
- wslh 8mo agoBTW, more discussions around this topic are flourishing: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kirill-balakhonov_claude-code-security-why-an-embedded-ai-activity-7431029863194574848-ccHj/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kirill-balakhonov_claude-code... I agree that it will be difficult to compete with frontier labs if they declared it as part of their core business.