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Building your own AI model on top of frontier technology saves 1% to 30% in cost — far less than the 14–16x open-source savings Chamath claims. The real reason Wix built its own: training data specificity and better quality for Base44's use cases.
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To ground the abstract AI debate in reality, Avishai reveals a striking internal experiment. Wix's team tried to build a basic hairdresser business management system — scheduling, staff management, delivery logistics — inside Base44. First a regular team tried for a week. Then Wix brought in the engineers who originally wrote the relevant Wix code. Two weeks later, they still hadn't finished. [1] — Avishai Abrahami "The vibe coding revolution has a ceiling, and it stops at complexity. Wix ran internal tests where professional developers couldn't build a…" 10:40 The point is stark: if professional developers building their own platform can't do it, the average small business owner stands no chance. Avishai maps out three possible futures for Wix customers: they stay on Wix because their business is pizza, not apps; they migrate to Base44 because vibe coding empowers them; or they do both. The most likely scenario, he believes, is the third — a gradual mix over five to six years — which is precisely why Wix owns both platforms.
Not every small business will migrate to vibe coding — many will stay on Wix because their business is making pizza, not building apps. Others will embrace Base44. Most will use both. Owning both sides of that transition is the entire strategic bet.
Wix's fine-tuned proprietary model for Base44 is 1%–30% cheaper than frontier models, not the dramatic savings many assume.
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Sam had no coding knowledge, so he used ChatGPT voice mode to generate his entire codebase and copy-pasted it into Notepad. A friend later introduced him to Cursor, and he never looked back.
Copy days of Discord chat history, paste it into ChatGPT, and ask it to list recurring pain points. The ones that come up most often are your best product bets.
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