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Software lock-in is breaking, because rewriting just the 5% of an application you personally use is now within one person's reach.

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Microsoft The company and its bets: Copilot, the office tools business, and what agents do to both.

Lock-in and switching costs

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  1. David Heinemeier Hansson Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
    And maybe you won't get to 100% coverage, but this is the old joke about Microsoft Office. "I only use 5%." Yeah, well, we all use a different 5%. Well, what if we all just build our own 5%? What if I just took the functionality that I need and just did that? That is a completely different challenge and one agents are incredibly capable of doing right now, today, and I've done it a lot of times over.

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