AIs epic cash call is matched only by its ability to strangle revenue streams

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News Summary

  • An industrious individual has released source code and binaries for Claude-copied Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite programs.
  • It’s clear that Microsoft and Adobe are facing some competition from what their rival describes as "clean-room reimplementations" The post-codeclone world is going to be interesting.
  • Everything becomes effectively open source, which closes down substantial revenue streams for big companies who had assumed lock-in.
  • It's an arms race that won’t be won by humans.
As it was written, so it has come to pass. A while back, we suggested that given how good AI was at code analysis, it would become possible to clone large applications. And then where would we be?

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