Cheap AI engineers blamed for loss of paying software customers
What happened
An October 25 Hacker News front-page post ties Anthropic's marketing of an "AI software engineer" to the loss of paying software customers. The post says AI labs sell the service to anyone for $20 a month, and that this goes beyond replacing engineers: it has produced Photoshop alternatives and open-source clones that can be built over a weekend. On that basis the post argues cheap AI development is destroying the customer base that used to pay for software. The post does not name the replacement products, give the scale of customer loss, or include responses from the companies involved.
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- Hacker News front pageAnthropic Wanted to Replace Engineers. Instead, They Shot Their Own Customers
AI 实验室以每月 20 美元的价格向所有人出售"AI 软件工程师"，反而催生了周末就能完成的 Photoshop 替代品和开源克隆，摧毁了原本要付费的软件客户群。
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