> In most markets Senior developers often command salaries exceeding $150,000 USD per year, and on top of this there are legal and operational overheads for running the STF.

Translation:

Our product makes no money, has no use case and we need $1M to survive.

Two ways a PE "cost saver" would fix this:

1. Claude + 1x senior engineer (in India).

2. CTO + Claude and no senior engineers / employees.

Given we have (allegedly) achieved "AGI" (heavily disputed) they don't need as many employees.

Especially those that are after $150k+ which when you can vibe code with Claude for less than $10k anyway. /s

Job done.

So you are suggesting that a private communications and messaging system that proports to offer reliable anonymity is a reasonable use case for more-or-less unsupervised development by Claude? Because that is just the sort of use case where I would NOT trust an unsupervised AI.