"I know you're out there. The developer who watches their colleagues enthusiastically embrace Claude Code and Cursor, having AI write entire feature sets while you proudly type every semicolon by hand. The founder who sees AI-generated code as a ticking time bomb of bugs and security vulnerabilities. The software entrepreneur who believes that real code comes from human minds, not language models. This one's for you."
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"The Coding Companion You Never Knew You Needed The biggest breakthrough - and likely what some of you have already tried but can be done in a very particular and intentional way - is having AI systems as a coding companion. Not a code writer, but an investigator. Someone you can task with research, and who reports back insights that you can then tackle as projects on your timeline."
Some developers and founders distrust AI-generated code due to concerns about bugs, security vulnerabilities, and loss of human craftsmanship. AI can still provide value without writing production code by acting as a research-focused coding companion that investigates issues, gathers evidence, and reports actionable insights. AI can take on tasks like research, tracking, and idea ideation so developers can prioritize and schedule implementation. Payment and billing responsibilities for SaaS can be offloaded to a Merchant of Record to simplify operations and focus on product development. Early AI capabilities in late 2023 and early 2024 were not yet suitable for reliable production-ready code.
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