Anton Osika, CEO of Lovable, speaks with John Collison about expected technological breakthroughs in autonomous AI agents over the next twelve months.
Opinion
Osika: Low ambition levels are the biggest problem for European tech startups
“The ambition level is the biggest problem, I think. Like, there's fewer people that are, like, super ambitious, like, okay, this is a unique opportunity in the history of mankind, and we're here to build the best way to build software applications with AI. Ins…”
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Osika: Open source is overrated because AI models can generate code on-demand
“Unfortunately with AI, it's overrated, like the, an AI model can just spit out open source code, so to say.”
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Osika: Non-coders are making hundreds of thousands from prompt-built production applications
“That's what we're seeing with people making hundreds of thousands of dollars having built production-ready applications, but just by prompting, not looking at the code ever.”
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Osika: Software development will transition to visual, conversational AI interfaces
“We're going to see a completely new type of experience and interface to build software products, and it's not going to be humans looking at the code, it's going to be something new, something more like visual, and driven by talking to an AI, and it's going to …”
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Osika: The US has far more experienced SaaS talent than Europe
“There is much more people who've built SaaS and like startups before that you can, that have like very, very good expertise that you can hire in the U.S. And much less so in Europe.”
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Osika: Lovable users range from teenagers to funded serial founders
“Today it's used a lot for, as you said, like creating this first version of your startup by, both by teenagers or kids that are like, I want to make money and create something. And serial entrepreneurs that raised like fifty million dollars, but now they were …”