Your SaaS Is One Week and $1,100 Away From Being Cloned. Cloudflare Just Proved It.

A comment on a recent Hacker News thread about chardet relicensing made me close my MacBook for two minutes. Roritharr, a SaaS consultant, was telling the story of one of his client's engineers who had reverse-engineered the backend in a week with Claude Code, shipping a functionally identical API. He finished with a raw question: "How do we protect ourselves against a competitor doing this?". The deeper question underneath: "If your backend is trivial enough to be implemented by a large language model, what value are you providing.