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Usage is Oxygen

AI-assisted coding tools are enabling more people to build software, but the real challenge remains getting users to adopt products. Usage is described as oxygen for software success.

read1 min views16 publishedJun 20, 2026
If you can think of an idea, there is already software out there addressing that need. It might not be 100% perfect, but it does 80% of what you want it to do. If it is open-source, you can now use AI to get it to 100% and match exactly what you want.

If you read articles online, you’ll see that very few people are writing code without AI assistance anymore. It definitely improves the speed of software development, but writing code or creating software was never the actual issue. Even before AI, online marketplaces could get you 80% of the way there; now, AI just allows a lot more people to build.

The real problem always was getting people to actually use the product you have built. Usage is oxygen.

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