The Software Frontier
What changes when software becomes dramatically cheaper to create and increasingly abundant?
An evolving argument about what becomes possible when AI makes software dramatically cheaper to create and increasingly abundant.
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The cost of producing software is falling faster than most organizations have changed their assumptions about where software value comes from.
This Thread follows the frontier of creation: cheaper implementation, faster iteration, weaker technical moats, and the growing importance of context, distribution, judgment, and the problems worth solving.
The argument
Why Shipping Code Faster Won’t Save You
Speed is cheap now. Differentiation is not. The winning teams are the ones who know what to build, not just how fast to ship.
First Movers Don’t Win In Software. Last Movers Do.
In software, first is rarely best. The winners are the ones who wait for the fog to clear, then move decisively when the category is legible.