Software is expensive to create.
That means that software has to be polished, high-fidelity, and one-size-fits-many.
But what if software got orders of magnitude cheaper to make?
You could have disposable software.
Software too cheap to meter.
From other episodes
- Tasks often require "intelligence tokens."2026-04-06
- One implication of infinite software: Components will kill pages.2026-02-16
- Stuxnet was extremely expensive to create.2026-02-02
- A process of accumulation: a person makes a decision to change the world, which requires clearing a high intention bar.2025-11-24
- Most of our security systems are downstream of an assumption that "acting like a human is expensive."2025-11-24
- LLMs don't help with engineering productivity, they help with prototyping.2025-09-22
- When creation gets orders of magnitude cheaper you can curate post facto.2025-05-05
- LLMs are human-level common sense with infinite patience, many orders of magnitude cheaper than real humans.2025-01-21