So tired of these posts here which bring down all the value people put into their products.
It seems to be a general consensus on this subreddit that now you can build anything in under a day and there's absolutely no moat in the development.
I disagree with this claim.
Perhaps it's because I'm building something thought-out and meaningful, and not something that can be easily replicated in 8 hours? I'm a pretty good developer, I'm using Claude Code and Windsurf, I have a very solid and modular architecture and very clean and maintainable code in my product.
Adding features, updating and removing them - I can do it extremely fast with Claude.
And yet.... it takes me MONTHS of work to make it really good.
Not only coding, but also planning out, learning, going through trial and errors, developing and re-developing features to finally GET THEM RIGHT.
Anyone who says can they do it in a day, or a week, or even a month - I just don't believe them. Either they are just lying, or simply not competent enough to see the flaws of their product comparing to competitors.
Sure, you can create something that *seems* to replicate a mature and very thought-out tool. It will look and feel the same, and someone will even pay for it. But realistically, even if AI speeds up your work X10, it doesn't change the fact that you have to iterate, learn, build and re-build stuff over and over. And it takes TIME.
Far more time than 8 hours of work. Far more than months of work. That is, if you're building something real.
I hope I'm not the only one who thinks that way and who feels annoyed at all this crap that devalues the actual work people put into their projects.