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aurareturntoday at 8:32 AM2 repliesview on HN

There is clearly a moat - or Claude Code wouldn't be generating over $10b in ARR every single month.


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pikertoday at 8:36 AM

That's not what "moat" means. Claude Code has a castle. A "moat" is meant to protect the castle from invaders. It would be things like high switching costs, proprietary formats, network effects, etc. that aren't there.

In other comments people mention the "flywheel" of data and money feeding training, but there's a view that at some point the baseline open-weight models are "good enough" that the money will dry up.

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aswegs8today at 8:42 AM

That's definitely a moat. Being able to generate ARR every month.

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