The Customer Is the Builder: how AI coding agents change software economics
Submitted by riponcm. Hacker News recorded 2 points and 0 comments as of Oct 23, 2026 (UTC).
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Paper identifier: 2610.30307. The record contains the title “The Customer Is the Builder: how AI coding agents change software economics” but no substantive source summary.
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Source votes: 2 votes (Oct 23, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 2 (Oct 23, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “Paper: Nubank cuts AI agent update cycles from 3 weeks to under 5 days” (Hacker News, Nov 6, 2026); “Cognitive Bias Signatures in Search-Equipped LLM Agents: A Stage-Resolved Analysis” (arXiv, Nov 5, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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