It’s not equal amount of time though.

You don’t need to support all the other customers, and you also have the exact apis and their usage.

Telling Claude to “reimplement” something is vastly more achievable than trying to spec and research and develop a totally novel idea.

And it gets much worse for the “open core” projects - you can literally get the core and vibe code all the “premium” features and don’t pay the original creators a dime … while still requiring a lot of skill to do, it is vastly more tractable than it used to be, shifting the “is it worth the time and money” point quite a lot.

My prediction is we will see a lot less open source or open core companies in the future, people are now guarding their IP much more.

Ahh, it was nice while it lasted. I’m already thinking how I will be telling my grandkids about the good old time of GitHub and open source and oss social interactions, while stroking my white beard…