This just reads like someone's cross at the AI hype and wanted to take a shot, but missed.

The underlying point --that network effects exist and determine the success of a product-- has always been the case, long before AI made it possible to vibe code a rough Instagram clone in a weekend.

Anyway, if you want a successful new product, the path to success (obviously) isn't likely to be copying an existing behemoth, but offering something new, unique and valuable. That's always been the (exceptionally difficult) challenge, and AI doesn't help with this. But I think we can be confident that in the future, as humans do create new, unique, and valuable products, some of them will probably be vibe coded.

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Applejinx 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You may say that, but it seems to me that by definition vibecoding things will make them less unique because the technology is best suited to reproducing best practices even when those are cumbersome. Your best case scenario is a nontechnical person with a bright idea vibecoding something far beyond their ability to understand, and that's a recipe for implementation problems that'll harm the value of the novel thing being created.

	▲	kristianc 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You can still create enormous value modelling things that are well understood, and even boring. Most LOB SaaS wasn't created from deep Google-level engineering, it was taken in modelling an ugly workflow in CRUD and creating customer records, job scheduling, worker assignments, quotations, recurring contracts, invoices, inspection checklists. Most Construction Tech startups for instance today is this.