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● When everyone has access to the same models, and those models can produce working software quickly and cheaply, the code itself stops being a moat. A reasonably skilled person can now build what used to take a team of engineers months to ship.

● A competitor can reach feature parity in days. The thing that used to protect a business, the sheer effort required to build it, is mostly gone.

● Think of it like oil. If every property owner had a well that was cheap to operate, the price of oil would fall toward the price of water. The resource is abundant, the extraction is easy, and the margin disappears. Software features are heading in the same direction.

https://designexplained.substack.com/p/the-moat-has-moved