As a software provider, are you selling the software, or the thing the software accomplishes?

2026-04-06 · Bits and Bobs 4/6/26

As a software provider, are you selling the software, or the thing the software accomplishes?
- If the former, then your business is now worth much less given LLMs.
- If the latter, then there's no problem, and it's possibly even good.^[a]^[b]

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