Opportunity cost.
Cloning Slack and wasting ultra-expensive engineers on that might be more expensive, and it's not your core mission.
Cloning Slack and wasting ultra-expensive engineers on that might be more expensive, and it's not your core mission.
PS. If you're claiming that coding an application is ultra-expensive, you are already entering the argument on the side of the comment you're arguing against, which is making a counterpoint to the article, which claims in the first sentence:
> The math is simple: if it costs almost nothing to build an app, it costs almost nothing to clone an app. And if cloning is free, subscription pricing dies.
Cloning Slack would bring in $0 dollars.
Neither of those software are primarily responsible for the revenue, either. The actual models underlying them are, not the trivial CLI chat interface (which, despite being trivial software, still manages to be full of bugs that go unfixed for months). I also don't even think it's true that Codex is primarily agent-written. OpenAI specifically cited using Electron in their recent Codex desktop application for "agent orchestration" to save human developer time on porting it across platforms, which does not sound like a successful exercise in eating their dog food.
So they say.
Shouldn't they be in place to replace absolutely every other tech company? That is tens of trillions of valuation in short few years.