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  "title": "does anyone else think that as ai gets smarter, the chance we create anything worth buying becomes less because it will be too easy to replicate or the ai tech is advancing so fast its kind of useless to use it now?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1w8aeps/does_anyone_else_think_that_as_ai_gets_smarter/",
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  "upload_date": "20260905",
  "published_at": "2026-09-05T19:42:17+00:00",
  "transcript": "I think back on rapid technological obsolescence and how if you sent a ship into space you would eventually create a faster one that will catch up to that ship so its not even worth sending the first one out. That's kind of how I feel about anything im doing right now. That it will just be useless by the time it becomes something worth selling\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[31 upvotes] I think a few things will remain true for a while:\n\n1. Access to the best models, and for a lot of compute, cost money\n2. An human actually willing to spend time with the model to iterate will outperform someone who does a single prompt.\n3. A quality prompt will outperform a lazy one.\n\nSo even right now we can already see this: someone with a free sub who just does a lazy prompt on a free model gets a completely different result from a mad man cycling claude max x20 subs with top notch prompts.\n\n\\#2 and #3 will probably become less important over time, but #1 might actually become MORE important.\n\n[29 upvotes] Fully automated luxury communism \n\n[9 upvotes] Yes. I've been shouting this from the rooftops for a couple of years now and only now are people starting to realize what is going to happen.  \n\nEverything in the software world is going to plummet cost wise because of how quick and easy it will become to make your own version of a software you used to pay for. Any SaaS is toast. But eventually only open source will survive because it will become better than any paid product through the collaborative effort of thousands of people using AI to build it.",
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