Developer Automates Coding Assistants To Clone Software

Open-source developer Geoff Huntley recently created "Ralph," a bash loop that repeatedly feeds prompts and AI outputs into Anthropic's Claude Code to iteratively produce working software. He used it to clone commercial and open-source products, build a ZX Spectrum tax app and a new language called "Cursed," and estimates agentic coding can run at roughly US$10 per compute hour. He warns this could let startups cheaply clone SaaS features and disrupt developer roles.