AI Coding Assistants Have Commoditized Solo Dev Tools Market
A solo founder reflects on how AI coding assistants have eliminated the pain points that previously justified standalone developer tools — boilerplate, debugging, code search — leaving little addressable whitespace for new entrants. This is a market observation and strategic discussion, not a specific actionable problem.
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