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At some point, some people will just publish open source single-shot LLM prompts that define a clean-room spec for every over-priced product.

Why not make an open source alternative to the product?

Because everyone's needs are just a little different, and collaborating takes maintenance. Forks are free, merges are expensive.

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that's actually NOT what you want to do. You want to build out a clone for these SAAS product that don't have the features you don't need, eliminating footguns and accelerating the fast path to user success.

Large companies may have difficulty embracing this strategy because software is a cost center, and not a revenue center, for them. The returns to efficiency gains are really hard to measure.

Yes, I want to build a clone for the SAAS product my company uses.

And if someone has gone to the bother to make a prompt that helps my LLM build one, and it either already doesn't have the features I don't need, or I can have my LLM start by trimming the features I don't need before it builds it...

Then I think you're saying the same thing I'm saying.

"Build an Oracle clone in Rust. Make no mistakes."

Huh, the LLM deleted itself.

I guess that is a valid solution to that prompt.

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