[AkshatM]

> Need an example? Good. Coding.

> You must be paying your software engineers around $100,000 yearly.

> Now that vibecoding is out there, when was the last time you committed to pay $100,000 to Lovable or Replit or Claude?

I think the author is attacking a bit of a strawman. Yes, people won't pay human prices for AI services.

But the opportunity is in democratization - becoming the dominant platform - and bundling - taking over more and more of the lifecycle.

Your customers individually spend less, but you get more customers, and each customer spends a little extra for better results.

To respond to the analogy: not everyone had $100,000 to build their SaaS before. Now everyone who has a $100 budget can buy Lovable, Replit and Claude subbscriptions. You only need 1,000 customers to match what you made before.

[Sol-]

How much demand for software is there, though? I don't buy the argument that the cake will grow faster than jobs are devalued. On the bright side, prices might collapse accordingly and we'll end up in some post scarcity world. No money in software, but also no cost, maybe.