Software's adjacent possible has gotten 10x bigger.

· Bits and Bobs 5/18/26
  • Software's adjacent possible has gotten 10x bigger.
    • Coding has gotten 10x cheaper.
    • Everyone is defaulting to building the same stuff as before, but 10x faster.
    • What about things that are 10x deeper?
      • Things that would have taken unreasonable amounts of time before?
      • There are some things that would have been impossible to even 10x the resources to get.
        • People, famously, have coordination challenges that scale super-linearly.
    • A whole new adjacent possible has opened up in software and no one seems to have noticed yet.
    • The companies who realized what was now viable who play in that new field of possibility will change the world.