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    "text": "That's a statement I've seen a couple"
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    "text": "of times over the last couple of days."
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    "text": "It's a quite heated debate, obviously,"
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    "start": 8.17,
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    "text": "because the underlying question, I think,"
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    "text": "of course,"
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    "text": "is whether software development is dead."
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    "text": "Or if paid software is dead,"
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    "text": "and there are a lot of strong"
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    "text": "opinions there, and I have some too,"
  },
  {
    "start": 20.293,
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    "text": "and some nuances too. So let's dive in."
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  {
    "start": 22.053,
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    "text": "This, of course, was a post by levelsio,"
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  {
    "start": 24.933,
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    "text": "Pieter Levels. You may know him from X."
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    "start": 26.773,
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    "text": "He got some strong opinions,"
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    "start": 28.773,
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    "text": "and he's stating that it's now"
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    "text": "and everyone just builds what they need"
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    "start": 33.973,
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    "text": "whenever they need it. I think. Now,"
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    "start": 36.95,
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    "text": "I definitely disagree with this statement,"
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    "text": "and he also kind of clarified it"
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    "start": 41.99,
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    "text": "thereafter. I'll get back to that."
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    "start": 43.85,
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    "text": "Now,"
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    "start": 44.583,
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    "text": "a couple of answers there, mostly relate"
  },
  {
    "start": 46.983,
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    "text": "to him being a hypocrite or something."
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    "text": "But then there is interesting"
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    "start": 52.023,
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    "text": "responses like this one."
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    "start": 53.483,
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    "text": "Don't you think most people are"
  },
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    "start": 54.523,
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    "text": "just lazy and not eager to change?"
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    "text": "I get the premise of micro apps, but I"
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    "text": "feel like people won't have the patience"
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    "text": "to deal with going back and forth with"
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    "text": "AI to solve bugs or tune to their liking"
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    "text": "if their current apps do"
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    "text": "the job without an issue."
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    "text": "people will just building their own"
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    "text": "Photoshop clones or anything like that."
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    "start": 77.61,
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    "text": "Totally not the future I see happening."
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    "text": "which is what Pieter Levels"
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    "text": "then also stated thereafter,"
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    "text": "is that they're not doing it in Claude"
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    "start": 88.41,
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    "text": "Code in a terminal like tech people."
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    "text": "But their AI chat app is already doing"
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    "text": "it for them without them even realizing."
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    "text": "like generating PDF reports, full web app"
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    "text": "dashboards, and even entire web apps."
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    "start": 102.436,
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    "start": 104.117,
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    "text": "Now, still with a lot of nuance,"
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    "start": 105.957,
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    "text": "though, but I do see that, of course,"
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    "text": "normies—and I hate that term; it's so"
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    "start": 111.477,
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    "text": "disrespectful—but normies will ask ChatGPT"
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    "text": "to remove the background of an image,"
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    "text": "and behind the scenes, ChatGPT may write"
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    "text": "some Python code or whatever and do it."
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    "text": "scenes, ChatGPT writes HTML code and then"
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    "text": "writes more code that converts that to"
  },
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    "text": "a PDF or prints that as a PDF document."
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    "text": "That's already possible today."
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    "text": "Obviously, now it's worth noting though"
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    "start": 139.877,
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    "text": "that as Andrej Karpathy also mentioned."
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    "text": "The vast majority of people are not"
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    "start": 144.802,
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    "text": "really using AI. Only a very small group"
  },
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    "start": 148.882,
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    "text": "is actually using it, and even there,"
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    "text": "not a lot of people are paying."
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    "start": 154.128,
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    "text": "You may know that chart that only like"
  },
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    "start": 156.368,
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    "text": "two percent of U.S. households or"
  },
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    "start": 158.448,
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    "text": "something like this are paying for AI."
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    "text": "So adoption is super slow,"
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    "start": 163.168,
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    "text": "but that is the direction I see. That"
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    "start": 165.568,
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    "text": "people will ask for problems to be solved,"
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    "start": 168.128,
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    "text": "and those AI assistants will be able to"
  },
  {
    "start": 170.288,
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    "text": "solve a lot of problems. Now. Again,"
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  {
    "start": 173.207,
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    "text": "and I know people on the internet hate"
  },
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    "start": 174.967,
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    "text": "that, but you have to differentiate."
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    "start": 177.383,
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    "text": "There will be normal people who"
  },
  {
    "start": 179.483,
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    "text": "just want to remove the background,"
  },
  {
    "start": 181.063,
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    "text": "just generate a PDF, and yeah,"
  },
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    "start": 182.663,
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    "text": "AI assistants will do that for them now."
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    "start": 184.927,
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    "text": "Can you quickly just tell me how much did"
  },
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    "text": "these people pay for software before?"
  },
  {
    "start": 189.887,
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    "text": "Oh, right, it was nothing. You did not pay"
  },
  {
    "start": 192.687,
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    "text": "for a PDF converter before. Maybe you did."
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    "start": 196.127,
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    "text": "Most people didn't. They were searching"
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    "start": 198.296,
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    "start": 200.376,
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    "text": "They would upload their bank statements"
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    "text": "to some weird website where whatever"
  },
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    "start": 208.296,
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    "text": "happens with that data, and they would get"
  },
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    "start": 214.376,
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    "text": "And nowadays they do it with AI,"
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    "start": 216.216,
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    "text": "where whatever may happen with that data,"
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  {
    "start": 218.456,
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    "text": "I guess. So not much changes there."
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    "start": 220.85,
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    "text": "Now you know who was or is paying"
  },
  {
    "start": 223.17,
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    "text": "for software, professionals, and"
  },
  {
    "start": 226.383,
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    "text": "if it's your hobby. Now, games, by the"
  },
  {
    "start": 228.943,
    "end": 230.783,
    "text": "way, are a different kind of software."
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  },
  {
    "start": 237.503,
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    "start": 239.263,
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    "text": "But that's a different story."
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    "text": "or you're a hobby video creator."
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    "text": "Maybe you paid for some Adobe products."
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    "text": "You paid for the Photoshop."
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    "text": "necessarily vibe code their own"
  },
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    "start": 262.083,
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    "text": "alternatives because guess what?"
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  {
    "start": 263.763,
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    "text": "If you do that, you have to maintain it."
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  {
    "start": 267.123,
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    "text": "You have to fix all those annoying"
  },
  {
    "start": 269.283,
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    "text": "bugs you'll encounter over time."
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  {
    "start": 271.283,
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    "text": "That may be fine for certain tasks,"
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    "start": 273.603,
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    "text": "but if it's your hobby,"
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    "start": 274.563,
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    "text": "if you're working a lot with it, if you're"
  },
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    "start": 276.483,
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    "text": "interested in the more advanced features."
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    "start": 278.579,
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    "text": "If you're maybe also interested in"
  },
  {
    "start": 280.579,
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    "text": "getting new features you didn't expect"
  },
  {
    "start": 282.739,
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    "text": "in the future, then you really want"
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    "start": 285.139,
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    "text": "someone else developing that for you."
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    "text": "Now prices may go down though because"
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    "start": 290.99,
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    "text": "now it's easier than ever to launch your"
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    "start": 293.71,
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  },
  {
    "start": 295.71,
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    "text": "get back to that thing and this entire"
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    "start": 297.71,
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    "text": "reverse engineering trend which we have"
  },
  {
    "start": 299.47,
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    "text": "right now and the downsides of that."
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    "start": 301.07,
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    "text": "But yeah, prices may go down,"
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  {
    "start": 303.15,
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    "text": "but I definitely see those people not"
  },
  {
    "start": 305.71,
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    "text": "vibe coding their own alternatives now."
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    "start": 308.05,
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    "text": "There will be some middle ground here."
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    "text": "It's absolutely possible that"
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    "text": "you had certain things you did,"
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  {
    "start": 314.52,
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    "text": "which were very specific,"
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    "start": 316.2,
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    "text": "and now you just ask ChatGPT or Claude to"
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    "start": 319.16,
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  {
    "start": 321.56,
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    "text": "which you do over and over again."
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    "start": 323.64,
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  },
  {
    "start": 325.0,
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    "text": "a tool for one specific task."
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  {
    "start": 326.6,
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    "text": "I definitely see that this could"
  },
  {
    "start": 328.12,
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    "text": "happen right now already, but soon I"
  },
  {
    "start": 332.6,
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    "text": "don't see those hobbyists and so on"
  },
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    "start": 335.417,
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  },
  {
    "start": 337.897,
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    "text": "now. Long term on the horizon,"
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    "start": 340.217,
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    "text": "nobody knows what happens. Right,"
  },
  {
    "start": 341.977,
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    "text": "with AI, that is impossible to predict."
  },
  {
    "start": 345.017,
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    "text": "There's too much going on, so"
  },
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    "start": 346.867,
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    "text": "it's impossible to say what will be the"
  },
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    "start": 348.947,
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    "text": "case or what will be true in ten years"
  },
  {
    "start": 351.267,
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    "text": "or even five years. But short term,"
  },
  {
    "start": 353.827,
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    "text": "yeah, I don't see that now."
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    "start": 356.017,
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    "text": "Normal people, hobbyists are, of course,"
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  {
    "start": 359.483,
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    "text": "there. They're not the most interesting"
  },
  {
    "start": 361.723,
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    "text": "market for the reasons I stated."
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  {
    "start": 363.643,
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    "text": "You know what is interesting?"
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  {
    "start": 365.208,
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    "text": "Companies, businesses,"
  },
  {
    "start": 367.208,
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    "text": "and here again we have to differentiate."
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    "start": 369.128,
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    "text": "Large corporations—they will be slow."
  },
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    "text": "There is a lot of inertia here, so they"
  },
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    "start": 375.928,
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    "text": "will be slow in adopting AI solutions."
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    "start": 380.168,
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    "text": "They will likely not vibe code all their"
  },
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    "start": 382.728,
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    "text": "code or all their software anytime"
  },
  {
    "start": 384.728,
    "end": 386.968,
    "text": "soon for a broad variety of reasons:"
  },
  {
    "start": 386.968,
    "end": 389.928,
    "text": "compliance, aligning different teams,"
  },
  {
    "start": 390.088,
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    "text": "the maintenance burden,"
  },
  {
    "start": 391.768,
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    "text": "all that fun stuff, and even more."
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  {
    "start": 394.417,
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    "text": "Small business owners, different thing."
  },
  {
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    "text": "They will definitely also pay for some"
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    "start": 398.577,
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    "text": "software for mission critical parts"
  },
  {
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    "text": "where they really don't want that bug to"
  },
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    "start": 402.977,
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    "text": "surface right when they need the software."
  },
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    "start": 405.95,
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    "text": "But for those annoying side tracks,"
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    "text": "I definitely see that. Or for other"
  },
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    "start": 411.311,
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    "text": "things like your website, and I mean,"
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  {
    "start": 413.79,
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    "text": "small business owners before were likely"
  },
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    "text": "using something like Wix or Squarespace."
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    "start": 418.99,
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    "text": "Now they can use ChatGPT with ChatGPT"
  },
  {
    "start": 421.55,
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    "text": "sites, or they can use Lovable."
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    "start": 423.39,
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    "text": "So they're just switching."
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    "text": "They weren't primarily interested in"
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