Infinite software won't look like software at all.
Infinite software won't look like software at all. The software will become so cheap to fade away into nothing. Just your data, come alive.
Topic: infinite software
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- infinite software appears in 72 chunks across 37 episodes, from 2024-12-16 to 2026-05-26.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 9/29/25 (2025-09-29), with 5 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with app model, magnitude cheaper, and sensitive data, while by chunk count it sits between schelling point and network effect; its yearly rank moved from #147 in 2024 to #11 in 2026.
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In a world of infinite software, will software creators be incentivized to make it for other users?
In a world of infinite software, will software creators be incentivized to make it for other users? Will savvy users creating software for themselves (and having it be shared with o...
Apple Pulls 'Anything' App in Growing Clampdown on Vibe Coding Apps.
...ing Clampdown on Vibe Coding Apps. The app distribution model is a poor fit for infinite software. See also: The Wrapper and the Code How Apple's vibe coding crackdown collides with software that doesn't hold still
Zeno's paradox of infinite software.
Zeno's paradox of infinite software. The first 80% is insanely fast to create. The last 20% to make it useful takes even longer than it used to. Fit and finish is hard to do with a squi...
Axios: AI vibe-coding apps leak sensitive data
... isn't malicious… or naive. That is no longer a good assumption in the world of infinite software.
Code is now cheap, but making software that actually works is still expensive.
...he details, the more you realize they aren't ready to ship. A Xeno's paradox of infinite software.
In a world of infinite software it won't even look like software.
In a world of infinite software it won't even look like software. It will be completely invisible. It won't look like anything at all.
A piece of software that it's hard to imagine a company making: Candy Crush, but it only works when you're offline.
...no sense; they might as well get the incremental use from online, too. Now with infinite software we can make our own software more easily.
In the last century or two we've gotten used to abundant mechanical labor.
...cognitive labor. This will change even more than the Industrial Revolution did. Infinite software is downstream of cognitive labor being abundant. But it's just the most obvious, immediate outcome. There will be tons of others. Hold on to your but...
One implication of infinite software: Components will kill pages.
One implication of infinite software: Components will kill pages. Previously the ideal equilibrium chonkiness of software was the app. But with software being orders of magnitude cheaper...
Personal software is only viable in a world of infinite software.
Personal software is only viable in a world of infinite software. When software is expensive to produce, you need a minimum sized market to make it economically viable. When software is basically free, it can be pr...
Infinite software can be JIT software.
Infinite software can be JIT software. If software can be created cheaply, you don't have to add features you might need. When the need arises, you can simply tweak it...
Stuxnet was extremely expensive to create.
...ne a world where everyone could make their own Stuxnet to sic on their enemies… Infinite software isn't an unalloyed good.
When a previously finite thing becomes infinite it breaks our brains.
...zero. That's one of the reasons I think people are underestimating the world of infinite software.
People are aware of the Great Oxidation Event, but you could also view it as the Oxidation Holocaust.
...e aggregators. But it remains to be seen if aggregators will survive a world of infinite software.
Everyone today is figuring out how to use AI to create today's software, but faster.
...ow to use AI to create today's software, but faster. That's just faster horses! Infinite software will enable new types of software that weren't viable before. What will the software equivalent of the car be? It won't look anything at all like a h...
With LLMs you can "fork" any software you can use.
...ty and reviewed it, you could just draft off their work. Another implication of infinite software. Buckle up!
Interesting piece from TLDraw about Stay Away from my Trash:
...ernal contributors actually valuable at all?" Another surprising implication of infinite software. A stranger's slop is not valuable at all by default, when we can make our own slop cheaply.
Adam Wiggins talks about the Personal Information Firehose
...ks about the Personal Information Firehose One of the possibilities unlocked by Infinite Software.
Bespoke creation vs bespoke outcomes are distinct.
... have bespoke software creation and industrial software outcomes. With LLMs and infinite software, we'll have industrial software creation and bespoke software outcomes.