[blutoot]

Fair point - my statement is more about stealing market for simpler integrations by undercutting them on price.

And I don't want to trivialize the reality of enterprise platforms where bespoke connectors rule. I have dealt with migrations of platforms that are business critical and managing version compatibility and ensuring none of the integrations regressed was par for the course. I am not even saying that that makes me qualified to replicate Honeycomb.io. But I do think someone with a deep technical background in building observability platforms armed with Claude Code or Codex and armed with the right set of MCP's and all the necessary tooling should be able to build a clone of Honeycomb.uio.

Maybe it won't be a fast turnaround like a typical vibe-coded project but even if it is a month-long project to even get to 60% feature parity. these vendors will have to sit up and pay attention.

[verdverm]

> And I don't want to trivialize...

as you immediately trivialize something it seems you know very little about

MCPs are outdated btw, it's bad to attach a bunch of MCPs in with your messages, pollutes the context. If you don't do this, you can build agents that are better than copilot/codex on gemini-3-flash. Claude Code is probably the leader here, but still definitely not capable of what you it is