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Software that is novel enough to be non-trivial to rebuild with an LLM, and priced within reason, will still be worth buying rather than building.
Drawn from what Brandur Leach said
SubjectLLMs
What Brandur Leach actually said
- Brandur Leach Software engineer at River, previously at Stripe
I'm contending (and/or hoping) that for a software package of arbitrary complexity, there's a zone of viability in which when priced within reason, it'll make sense to buy over build, even given the existence of the powerful LLMs that've become our daily companions
Where this was said
↗The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Softwarebrandur.org
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