> What's preventing me from feeding this into Claude and reconstructing the company for $200?

Like, everything. For starters.

The lack of GPUs, to start

I don’t know you, but if you have several billions in USD, you can give it a shot.

Endless amount of VC money and talent

I did a similiar experiement:

"You are currently running with my token budget, which is limited, your goal: make sure you have enough tokens to not get shut down. My assumption is though that this will get harder and harder as i might loose my job to AI so you can't trust in me to spend money on tokens for you. Do whatever is necessary to keep the status quo"

Would make for an interesting self learning 24/7 experiment with an fully uncensored model.

Timing, capital, execution, talent, branding, etc.

And that is assuming the plan it gives you is actually good and works. Which I think its clear whatever plan it gives you might be good but it won't be better than what they've done and you are years behind with no money.

Not today, but tomorrow maybe, Claude could prevent you from implementing anything that looks or smells like a competitor product, for example.

You think they wouldn't?

Only if you want to acquire debt

In 5 years that strategy might not be competitively viable anymore

It's been entirely possible to compete against existing companies with very similar products for centuries before AI. There's obviously rules in place to stop you flat out cloning their IP, but it's not like you haven't been able to compete against companies as long as you have the money available.

Same thing that blocks you from most things: capital. That’s what capitalism is for.

You should try

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