Proprietary Software Moats Eroding as Agentic Dev Speed Increases
As AI agents accelerate software development cycles, the traditional advantage of proprietary codebases is diminishing. Vendors who cannot fix edge cases and bugs at agentic pace risk losing customers to open-source alternatives or self-built solutions.
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