The app model puts a significant damper on leverage from a motivated user.

· Bits and Bobs 1/12/26
  • The app model puts a significant damper on leverage from a motivated user.
    • The app model requires the receiver to trust the creator of the code.
    • That was reasonable when code was expensive and the creator was likely a business with something to lose.
    • But LLMs make it much more common for code to be written by some rando.
    • How far is the leverage of one motivated rando?
    • In the app model, it's maybe 2-5x.
      • That is, they can grow their influence to between 2-5 people who know them well enough to trust them.
    • But what if you could get a multiplier of 100x or even 1000x?
      • That would be a radically different ecosystem.
    • All vibe-coding tools today create software distributed in the normal add model, which gives a ceiling of 2-5x leverage.

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