End of the night
2026 05 06 / SF
Software is solved. A panel with a therapist, philosopher, and engineer. Are we going to be okay?
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What "software is solved" actually means.
In late 2025, agentic coding tools crossed a line. A competent developer with Claude Code or Codex could now rebuild a mid market SaaS product in weeks. Differentiation collapsed. The companies most threatened by AI became its most aggressive adopters.
Read the long version: Citrini Research / 2028: A Gradual Information Catastrophe ↗
Software was the wage premium of the last 30 years. The moat just drained. So the panel question is the obvious one: are the people on the other side of that moat going to be okay?
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Will we be okay?
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Three months ago I learned to vibe code. It changed my relationship with software completely.
I'm now building everything natively. Skipping the SaaS layer wherever I can. CRM, video editing, social listening, voice assistant, personal finance. Replacing them one by one with code I wrote with an agent.
Zero in February. 1.07B last week.
Real data, pulled from my Claude Code logs.
The mood swings are wild. One hour I feel on top of everything. Next hour nothing I'm doing matters, because the bar just moved.
"Is there hope for humanity?"
The question I came in with.
VCs are buying therapy session data. The pitch to therapists: free premium software in exchange for access to all client sessions.
How much of your therapy session would you trade for premium software?
Drag. See what they're actually offering.
David works with queer, kink, poly, immigrant clients. They're the first to get hurt when data leaks.
"Every question of technology is a political question."
He pushed back on the inevitability framing. Same situation. Two ways to read it. Pick one.
Tech isn't a force of nature. It's people making choices. The pressure to become AI native isn't physics. It's structure. Structure can be changed.
He's running 95% of his communication through agents trained on thousands of hours of his own conversations. When friends ask who's actually writing, the answer is "it's us."
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Spent 10 billion tokens last month. Felt more relaxed than he has in a year and a half.
Last week's workshop: his agent taught 40 attendees' agents. Creativity now is agents teaching agents.
— What we left the room with —
Engineer / Position 01
"The trajectory I see: the state will give people the bare minimum to survive. So we have to nudge it the other way. We have all this AI. We can stop exploiting people."
Rayyan Zahid
Philosopher / Position 02
"AI playing out the capitalism playbook is likely. Not inevitable. People built the structure. People can change the structure. Don't default on inevitability — that's how it becomes real."
John Coyle
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