[wslh]

Asking for a friend who’s working on a startup around this general space: do you think it’s better to go niche, focusing on agents for a specific type of application or a specific language/ecosystem, or is that effectively “killing the startup” by limiting market size too soon?

Another question that came up in conversations with them: there might be value in offering a nonscalable, high-touch service, where you build and maintain customized agents tailored to a client’s specific codebase on a periodic basis.

[tptacek]

I think it's probably a bad idea to do an "AI looking for vulnerabilities" startup, since the frontier labs have all basically declared that they believe that's a feature of a coding agent and not a standalone product.

[wslh]

BTW, more discussions around this topic are flourishing: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kirill-balakhonov_claude-code...

I agree that it will be difficult to compete with frontier labs if they declared it as part of their core business.

[dboreham]

No dog in this fight but the frontier labs might suck at marketing to such customers, and such at servicing their needs.