Remember when Marc Andreessen posted that blog in 2011? "Software is eating the world." He said incumbents would lose to software-centric companies.
I think now with AI, software is eating software. Like the ouroboros serpent that swallows its own tail.
I've been thinking about this "post-software world" after Andrej Karpathy's "English is the hottest programming language" and his vibe coding concept.We're entering a world where intention becomes behavior. We don't necessarily have to go through the "software" phase. This doesn't just help software developers move faster. It turns everyone into a solutions developer. Your words become workflows. Your ideas become reality.
Software isn't dying. It's becoming invisible. And as everyone with an idea creates simple solutions, developers focus on more ambitious, powerful things. They're not being replaced. They're being elevated.
Scott Wiener, CEO and Founder at Hubs