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The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software
There is a zone of viability in which, when priced within reason, it makes sense to buy software over building it, even with AI. Software in this zone is sufficiently novel to make a rebuild with AI non-trivial, with some ongoing maintenance burden, and priced appropriately to discourage rebuild-by-LLM. Somewhere along the zone of viability is the minimum viable unit of saleable software. Below this level, a rebuild is the same or less effort compared to going through the purchasing process for a third party and not cost-effective over the long run.
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