The case for user setup costs as AI agents’ only moat

The writer argues that API integrations won’t protect AI agents if software becomes cheaper to write; the remaining barrier, they say, is the effort users put into setting an agent up. They say moving among Muse, Instinct and Dots takes a GitHub repo, a few databases and their context. The post also relays another speaker’s claim that Jev was reverse-engineered in 48 hours, and a disagreement over whether rapid copying would drive builders to hoard data.