The End of Software

Software companies will be displaced the way media companies were, because LLMs will drive the cost of creating software toward zero, as the internet did for content. The article argues that this will produce a Cambrian explosion of software that no longer has to make money, and that new platforms controlling distribution will then take the value. It gives Vogue being replaced by 10,000 influencers and Salesforce being replaced by a constellation of dynamic tools as examples, and it says that majoring in computer science today will be like majoring in journalism in the late 1990s.