...because every aspiring product manager can easily have their own Proton equivalent in no time. Hey, go further, the users of proton will have their own. No need for Proton.

That is my 30 years' experience with them. Once they get accustomed with a piece of software, they will not want to use a new one, no matter bad the old one is or how good the new one is. In fact, at the very moment I am struggling with one user who does not want the new version.

There were templates, examples, patterns but also your own code written before and you also mostly worked on existing software which had established patters you had to follow. LLMs works so well with coding because it is mostly copy paste, original ideas and code is rare.

Exactly. I used Anthropic in the past, now I am using Kimi K3 and never looked back. There is no way either Anthropic or Open AI can compete open models.

I will use Kimi instead.

while Kimi K3 silently released, open source and as good as them and much much cheaper.

We are two-people software developer company. Finding work was never a difficult for us, it was finding and retaining employees. Now, that is completely gone with AI help. I think you can always find a niche and become independent.

After one day serious usage my verdict. - I definitely will use it. - It works hard. I thought it must using a lot of processing power. That will cause price increase in the future. At some price level I might not want it. - If the work requires deep understanding of existing complicated code, it is difficult use it. But this would be the same for a human too. It is useful for professional programmer. The big question is can a layman use it for developing software.

I use Visual Studiio Community. It does not have Claude integration. So, I use Claude Code from terminal.

Before I used free Internet version. Now I am working with it. If you some change in the existing code you need to describe it in detail, which takes time. It is not worth for small changes. It is best when you want something new, such as a new report, and there is similar thing as an example.

Investors are welcome.

Everybody knew where he was.

In Islam, jinn are sentient beings created by God from smokeless fire, existing in a world parallel to humankind.

We are two-person software developer company. Our greatest hurdle was to hire and retain help. I use DeepSeek now and it is like we hired someone. Mainly, I ask it to review my code. Nearly all of its suggestions are spot on. I also asked it implement well defined modules a few times. I had to fix some glaring bugs, but it still managed to produce nice code. My general feeling of AI in software development is that as long as an experienced developer is in the command it is helpful and productive. Another thing is that this is nothing new. We had Internet before and you could just search and find solutions, good practices, gotchas, examples and templates. AI makes it very efficient. It is like an elaborate copy and paste system.