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mettamageyesterday at 3:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

> The math is simple: if it costs almost nothing to build an app, it costs almost nothing to clone an app. And if cloning is free, subscription pricing dies

Yes and no.

I have created 15 small apps that solves all kinds of things for me. However, at the department I work full of non-technical people, most of them don’t even know lovable exists.

And for the one that does know lovable exists, they tend to build stuff with some botched backend and you’ll get to scaling issues, security issues and who knows what else


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barnabeeyesterday at 3:57 PM

They know ChatGPT exists and soon enough that'll probably be enough for many use cases.

OtomotOyesterday at 3:40 PM

Exactly.

AI can produce mediocre or outright bad code no problem.

It was trained on the average, not just on Carmack level code...

It needs to be checked by a professional.

This won't ever change with LLMs or gen AI like it is now