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Kudos to the author for the update - and also to others including @dang for calling it out at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169759

(Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'?, 367 points, 267 comments)



Hey, I did some digging too (cough cough). Here's what I said on that thread:

- Proven: BuilderAI collapsed after fabricating revenue.

- Unsubstantiated: The rumour that 700 devs were the chatbot is false, not backed by evidence or insiders.

- Marketing vs. reality: They marketed features as "AI-assisted", not AI-generated, two very different things.

- Bottom line: The real scandal is financial fraud, not some fake-AI front.


Yeah, nice work - I mentioned "and others" for that reason; dangs was just the top comment.




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