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Monday, May 26, 2025

Software Ate the World. Now AI Is Eating Software.

 

Software Ate the World. Now AI Is Eating Software.

In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously declared that “software is eating the world.” And he was right. Over the next decade, nearly every industry was digitized, disrupted, or demolished by software. From how we shop to how we bank, from how we communicate to how we date, software became the invisible infrastructure of modern life. Every company became, in part, a software company.

But something new is happening now.

AI is eating software.

The New Eater Emerges

Artificial Intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), generative AI, and autonomous agents, are transforming how software is built, deployed, and even conceptualized. AI isn’t just another software tool—it’s a new layer that sits above software development itself.

Where once humans wrote code, now AI can generate it. Where once we had to meticulously design workflows, AI can infer and optimize them in real-time. AI doesn’t just use software—it writes, fixes, tests, and even replaces it.

From Apps to Agents

Apps used to be the endpoint of software innovation. You needed a team of developers to build a new productivity app, or a customer support system, or a recommendation engine. Now, an LLM can spin up an AI agent that handles all of that, learning as it goes.

Instead of building a CRM, businesses are deploying AI agents that are the CRM—automatically conversing with clients, managing data, summarizing interactions, and improving with every customer touchpoint.

We’re moving from a world of static software products to dynamic, self-improving, conversational systems.

Zero UI, Zero Code, Infinite Potential

AI is beginning to erode the traditional interfaces of software. Why click buttons and navigate menus when you can just say what you want?

Want a new dashboard? Tell your AI agent.

Need an email campaign launched, a spreadsheet analyzed, a bug fixed? Just describe the problem in plain English.

In this world, the real power isn’t in knowing how to code—it’s in knowing how to communicate. Prompting is the new programming. And anyone can prompt.

Implications: The Developer's Role Evolves

Developers are not becoming obsolete—they are becoming conductors rather than technicians. AI handles the repetitive, boilerplate code. Developers steer, architect, and integrate. More focus shifts to system design, governance, ethics, and human-AI collaboration.

Meanwhile, millions who were previously excluded from software creation now have tools to build, automate, and create at the speed of thought.

Beyond Software: Eating the World, Again

If software ate the world by digitizing it, AI is now reimagining it. AI is poised to redefine what’s possible in medicine, education, law, entertainment, science, and even governance.

It’s not just eating software—it’s reshaping intelligence itself.

Conclusion:

Software once transformed industries. Now AI is transforming software.

We’re not witnessing an incremental shift—we’re witnessing a recursive one: intelligence building intelligence, software creating software, and ideas becoming products without the friction of traditional development.

It’s not the end of software.

It’s the beginning of something much bigger.

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Monday, January 27, 2025

27: Marc Andreessen

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Thursday, July 04, 2024

Marc Andreessen

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Thursday, June 22, 2023

Marc Andreessen/Lex Fridman



Avoid These 10 Common Writing Mistakes To Build Your Twitter Audience . The difference between the roaring successes and the majority dropouts? High impact writing. The ability to clearly communicate a message, in a way that builds an audience and gets them excited about becoming your customer. Learning how to write, and applying your skills to scripts, tweets, articles and newsletters is the single biggest investment you can make in your career as a creator and your personal brand. ......... Kieran Drew quit dentistry to become a writer, and now shares what he learns as he builds his creator business. With 160,000 Twitter followers (having only opened his account in August 2020) and over 20,000 subscribers to his Digital Freedom newsletter ........... “One big idea, one captivating story, one core emotion, one core benefit, one call to action.” Drew believes that “specificity is the secret.” ........... “The road to hell is paved with adverbs,” said Stephen King. .......... Avoid words such as really, quickly, rarely, and so on. If a word ends in -ly, it’s not your friend. “Use them as an opportunity to swap out for bigger and bolder language.” Your message will be stronger, less fluffy, and more memorable to readers........... To save serious headaches, see if your sentence passes “the zombie test,” which goes like this: “If you can add ‘and by zombies’ to the sentence, it’s passive. If you can’t, it’s active.” This is the difference between “The world was rocked by Kieran (and by zombies)” and “Kieran rocked the world (and by zombies).” You want the latter, and so does your audience. .............. “First draft fast, second draft slow, one week buffer.” Simple. “Leave time between your drafts, and schedule content one week ahead.” ........... The internet shows you the opposite.” Instead of trying to sound well-educated, “distil core ideas down to their simplest form.” Be clear instead of clever. It makes you easier to consume, instantly memorable, and more than pays off long term........... Add line breaks to break up your paragraphs, use snappy sentences, bullet points and white space. “The secret is to be easy on the eyes.” ......... “Cut a third from your draft before publishing. People are busy. Write like it.” Even if you think what you’ve written cannot possibly be cut down, give it a go. Keep chopping until it’s a third shorter and much punchier. You won’t even remember what you cut out. ............ Remove fluffy phrases like “I think that,” “it’s possible that,” “you could,” and “probably.” Don’t be afraid to take your stance. ........ “Don’t be the guru, be the guide”

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Sunday, June 11, 2023

11: Marc Andreessen



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Why AI Will Save the World

AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.

......... A shorter description of what AI isn’t: Killer software and robots that will spring to life and decide to murder the human race or otherwise ruin everything, like you see in the movies. .......... A shorter description of what AI isn’t: Killer software and robots that will spring to life and decide to murder the human race or otherwise ruin everything, like you see in the movies. ........ we have used our intelligence to raise our standard of living on the order of 10,000X over the last 4,000 years........ What AI offers us is the opportunity to profoundly augment human intelligence to make all of these outcomes of intelligence – and many others, from the creation of new medicines to ways to solve climate change to technologies to reach the stars – much, much better from here. ............. In our new era of AI: ...... Every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful. The AI tutor will be by each child’s side every step of their development, helping them maximize their potential with the machine version of infinite love. .......... Every person will have an AI assistant/coach/mentor/trainer/advisor/therapist that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, and infinitely helpful. The AI assistant will be present through all of life’s opportunities and challenges, maximizing every person’s outcomes. ......... Every scientist will have an AI assistant/collaborator/partner that will greatly expand their scope of scientific research and achievement. Every artist, every engineer, every businessperson, every doctor, every caregiver will have the same in their worlds. .......... Every leader of people – CEO, government official, nonprofit president, athletic coach, teacher – will have the same. The magnification effects of better decisions by leaders across the people they lead are enormous, so this intelligence augmentation may be the most important of all. ........ Productivity growth throughout the economy will accelerate dramatically, driving economic growth, creation of new industries, creation of new jobs, and wage growth, and resulting in a new era of heightened material prosperity across the planet. ........... Scientific breakthroughs and new technologies and medicines will dramatically expand, as AI helps us further decode the laws of nature and harvest them for our benefit. ............ The creative arts will enter a golden age, as AI-augmented artists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers gain the ability to realize their visions far faster and at greater scale than ever before. ......... I even think AI is going to improve warfare, when it has to happen, by reducing wartime death rates dramatically. Every war is characterized by terrible decisions made under intense pressure and with sharply limited information by very limited human leaders. Now, military commanders and political leaders will have AI advisors that will help them make much better strategic and tactical decisions, minimizing risk, error, and unnecessary bloodshed. .......... In short, anything that people do with their natural intelligence today can be done much better with AI, and we will be able to take on new challenges that have been impossible to tackle without AI, from curing all diseases to achieving interstellar travel. .......... Perhaps the most underestimated quality of AI is how humanizing it can be. AI art gives people who otherwise lack technical skills the freedom to create and share their artistic ideas. Talking to an empathetic AI friend really does improve their ability to handle adversity. And

AI medical chatbots are already more empathetic than their human counterparts.

Rather than making the world harsher and more mechanistic, infinitely patient and sympathetic AI will make the world warmer and nicer. ........... AI is quite possibly the most important – and best – thing our civilization has ever created, certainly on par with electricity and microchips, and probably beyond those. ......... It turns out this present panic is not even the first for AI. ......... a moral panic is by its very nature irrational – it takes what may be a legitimate concern and inflates it into a level of hysteria that ironically makes it harder to confront actually serious concerns. ......... For AI risk, these are CEOs who stand to make more money if regulatory barriers are erected that form a cartel of government-blessed AI vendors protected from new startup and open source competition – the software version of “too big to fail” banks. .............. If you are paid a salary or receive grants to foster AI panic…you are probably a Bootlegger. .......... The problem with the Bootleggers is that they win. The Baptists are naive ideologues, the Bootleggers are cynical operators, and so the result of reform movements like these is often that the Bootleggers get what they want – regulatory capture, insulation from competition, the formation of a cartel – and the Baptists are left wondering where their drive for social improvement went so wrong. ............... We just lived through a stunning example of this – banking reform after the 2008 global financial crisis. The Baptists told us that we needed new laws and regulations to break up the “too big to fail” banks to prevent such a crisis from ever happening again. So Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, which was marketed as satisfying the Baptists’ goal, but in reality was coopted by the Bootleggers – the big banks. The result is that the same banks that were “too big to fail” in 2008 are much, much larger now. ................. And of course, no AI panic newspaper story is complete without a still image of a gleaming red-eyed killer robot from James Cameron’s Terminator films. ............. My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error. AI is not a living being that has been primed by billions of years of evolution to participate in the battle for the survival of the fittest, as animals are, and as we are. It is math – code – computers, built by people, owned by people, used by people, controlled by people. The idea that it will at some point develop a mind of its own and decide that it has motivations that lead it to try to kill us is a superstitious handwave. .............. AI doesn’t want, it doesn’t have goals, it doesn’t want to kill you, because it’s not alive. And AI is a machine – is not going to come alive any more than your toaster will. ............

Short version: If the murder robots don’t get us, the hate speech and misinformation will.

................ the same concerns of “hate speech” (and its mathematical counterpart, “algorithmic bias”) and “misinformation” are being directly transferred from the social media context to the new frontier of “AI alignment”. ................ there is no absolutist free speech position. First, every country, including the United States, makes at least some content illegal. ........... there are certain kinds of content, like child pornography and incitements to real world violence, that are nearly universally agreed to be off limits – legal or not – by virtually every society. So any technological platform that facilitates or generates content – speech – is going to have some restrictions. ............... As the proponents of both “trust and safety” and “AI alignment” are clustered into the very narrow slice of the global population that characterizes the American coastal elites – which includes many of the people who work in and write about the tech industry – many of my readers will find yourselves primed to argue that dramatic restrictions on AI output are required to avoid destroying society. I will not attempt to talk you out of this now, I will simply state that this is the nature of the demand, and that most people in the world neither agree with your ideology nor want to see you win. ............... In short, don’t let the thought police suppress AI. ............. The fear of job loss due variously to mechanization, automation, computerization, or AI has been a recurring panic for hundreds of years, since the original onset of machinery such as the mechanical loom. Even though every new major technology has led to more jobs at higher wages throughout history, each wave of this panic is accompanied by claims that “this time is different” – this is the time it will finally happen, this is the technology that will finally deliver the hammer blow to human labor. And yet, it never happens. ..................

by late 2019 – right before the onset of COVID – the world had more jobs at higher wages than ever in history.

................ AI, if allowed to develop and proliferate throughout the economy, may cause the most dramatic and sustained economic boom of all time, with correspondingly record job and wage growth – the exact opposite of the fear. ................. technology introduced into an industry generally not only increases the number of jobs in the industry but also raises wages. ......... This is not to say that inequality is not an issue in our society. It is, it’s just not being driven by technology, it’s being driven by the reverse, by the sectors of the economy that are the most resistant to new technology, that have the most government intervention to prevent the adoption of new technology like AI – specifically housing, education, and health care. The actual risk of AI and inequality is not that AI will cause more inequality but rather that we will not allow AI to be used to reduce inequality. .......... Tools, starting with fire and rocks, can be used to do good things – cook food and build houses – and bad things – burn people and bludgeon people. Any technology can be used for good or bad. ............ AI will make it easier for criminals, terrorists, and hostile governments to do bad things, no question. .......... AI is not some esoteric physical material that is hard to come by, like plutonium. It’s the opposite, it’s the easiest material in the world to come by – math and code. ............. AI is like air – it will be everywhere. The level of totalitarian oppression that would be required to arrest that would be so draconian – a world government monitoring and controlling all computers? jackbooted thugs in black helicopters seizing rogue GPUs? – that we would not have a society left to protect. ......... We don’t even need new laws – I’m not aware of a single actual bad use for AI that’s been proposed that’s not already illegal. ............. using AI as a defensive tool. The same capabilities that make AI dangerous in the hands of bad guys with bad goals make it powerful in the hands of good guys with good goals – specifically the good guys whose job it is to prevent bad things from happening. ............. if you are worried about AI generating fake people and fake videos, the answer is to build new systems where people can verify themselves and real content via cryptographic signatures. Digital creation and alteration of both real and fake content was already here before AI; the answer is not to ban word processors and Photoshop – or AI – but to use technology to build a system that actually solves the problem. ........... let’s mount major efforts to use AI for good, legitimate, defensive purposes. Let’s put AI to work in cyberdefense, in biological defense, in hunting terrorists, and in everything else that we do to keep ourselves, our communities, and our nation safe. ............ using AI to protect against bad people doing bad things, I think there’s no question a world infused with AI will be much safer than the world we live in today............ AI isn’t just being developed in the relatively free societies of the West, it is also being developed by the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China. .............. China has a vastly different vision for AI than we do – they view it as a mechanism for authoritarian population control, full stop. They are not even being secretive about this, they are very clear about it, and they are already pursuing their agenda. And they do not intend to limit their AI strategy to China – they intend to proliferate it all across the world, everywhere they are powering 5G networks, everywhere they are loaning Belt And Road money, everywhere they are providing friendly consumer apps like Tiktok that serve as front ends to their centralized command and control AI. .............

The single greatest risk of AI is that China wins global AI dominance and we – the United States and the West – do not.

............... we in the United States and the West should lean into AI as hard as we possibly can. ......... more general problems such as malnutrition, disease, and climate. AI can be an incredibly powerful tool for solving problems, and we should embrace it as such. .......... To prevent the risk of China achieving global AI dominance, we should use the full power of our private sector, our scientific establishment, and our governments in concert to drive American and Western AI to absolute global dominance, including ultimately inside China itself. We win, they lose.

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Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Marc Andreessen



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पहिचानको सपना देखाएको माओवादीले नै लत्तो छाडेपछि प्रदेश १ को नाम 'कोशी' राख्ने प्रस्तावमाथि बुधबार संसदमा छलफल चलिरहँदा जनता समाजवादी पार्टी (जसपा) की नेता निर्मला लिम्बूका आँखाबाट आँसुको कोशी बग्दै थियो। ...... प्रदेश १ यस्तो थलो हो, जहाँ पहिचानका लागि लामो आन्दोलन चलेको थियो। कुनै बेला ठूलो आकारको उक्त आन्दोलन अहिले खुम्चिँदै गएको छ। तर पहिचानसहितको संघीयताका लागि अहिले पनि एउटा तप्का निरन्तर संघर्षरत छ। ....... २०६२–६३ को जनआन्दोलनलगत्तै उठेको मधेस विद्रोहले मुलुकमा संघीयतालाई अवश्यम्भावी तुल्याएको थियो। त्यस क्रममा धेरैको ज्यान गएको थियो। त्यसअघि माओवादी सशस्त्र विद्रोहले पहिचानमा आधारित प्रदेशहरूको सपना देशव्यापी बनाइसकेको थियो। त्यो सपनामा प्राण भर्ने काम मधेस, थारू र पूर्वको लिम्बूवान आन्दोलनले गरेको थियो। ........ एमाले र कांग्रेस मिलेपछि नामकरण गर्न दुईतिहाइ मत पुग्थ्यो। एमालेको ४० र कांग्रेसको २९ मतमा राप्रपाको ६ मत थपिँदा आरामदायी संख्या पुग्थ्यो। यस्तो अवस्थामा फरक प्रस्ताव लैजान माओवादी तयार भएन। ........ 'नाम चाहिँ पहिचानसहितको चाहिने अनि भोट चाहिँ कांग्रेस र एमालेलाई दिने? हामीले मात्रै कति मुद्दा बोक्ने?' ......... 'माओवादी अब न पहिचानमा छ, न वर्गमा, न कुनै वैचारिकीमा,' उनले भने, 'माओवादी केवल कुर्सी खेलमा छ। त्यसैले कोशी होस् वा सगरमाथा, खास नेतृत्वका केही साँघुरा स्वार्थ सम्बोधन भए ऊ सहभागी भइहाल्छ।' ...... केन्द्रीय गठबन्धनमा राष्ट्रपति चुनावले खटपट ल्याएकै बेला माओवादी, कांग्रेस र राप्रपाको समर्थन जुटाएर नाम राख्न सफल भएको जस मुख्यमनत्री हिक्मत कार्कीले पाउने भएका छन्। ........... सत्तारूढ नेकपा एमालेको प्रस्तावमा मुख्य विपक्षी कांग्रेस, सत्तारूढ माओवादी केन्द्र र राप्रपाका सांसदहरूले समर्थन जनाउँदा प्रदेश नामकरण दुईतिहाइभन्दा बढी मतले पारित भएको हो। सभामुख बाबुराम गौतमले प्रदेशको नाम कोशी राखिनुपर्छ भन्ने प्रस्तावका पक्षमा ८२ मत परेको घोषणा गरेका छन्। विपक्षमा भने जम्मा ४ मत परेको थियो।

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

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