[bodge5000]

I get its necessary for investment, but I'd be a lot happier with these tools if we didn't keep making these wild claims, because I'm certainly not seeing 10x the output. When I ask for examples, 90% its claude code (not a beacon of good software anyway but if nearly everyone is pointing to one example it tells you thats the best you can probably expect) and 10% weekend projects, which are cool, but not 10x cool. Opus 4.5 was released in Dec 2025, by this point people should be churning out year long projects in a month, and I certainly haven't seen that.

I've used them a few times, and they're pretty cool. If it was just sold as that (again, couldn't be, see: trillion dollar investments) I wouldn't have nearly as much of a leg to stand on

[scotty79]

Have you seen moltbook? One dude coded reddit clone for bots in less the a week. How is it not at least 10x of what was achievable in pre-ai world?

Granted he left the db open to public, but some meat powered startups did exactly the same few years ago.

[coldtea]

Any semi-capable coder could build a Reddit clone by themselves in a week since forever. It's a glorified CRUD app.

The barrier to creating a full blown Reddit the huge scaling, not the functionality. But with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and backends like S3, CF etc, this hasn't been a barrier since a decade or more, either.

[rsynnott]

Remember the Ruby on Rails hype? You could make a twitter clone in an afternoon! It obviously wouldn't work properly, but, y'know...

This is, like, not the industry's first run-in with "this makes you 10x more productive!"

[Ygg2]

Have you seen the shitshow moltbook was?

Anyone could insert themselves AI or not. Anyone could post any number of likes.

This isn't a Reddit clone. This is Reddit written by Highschoolers.

[bodge5000]

I mean as has already been pointed out the fact that its a clone is a big reason why, but then I also think I could probably churn out a simple clone of reddit in less than a week. We've been through this before with twitter, the value isnt the tech (which is relatively straightforward), its the userbase. Of course Reddit has some more advanced features which would be more difficult, but I think the public db probably tells you that wasn't much of a concern to Moltbook either, so yeh, I reckon I could do that.

[jimbokun]

1. Do you have insider knowledge of the Reddit code base and the Moltbook code base and how much it reproduced?

2. Copying an existing product should take a minuscule fraction of the time it took to evolve the original.

3. I glanced at some of the Moltbook comments which were meaningless slop, very few having any replies.

[Krei-se]

Because its a clone.