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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Notifications Chat Grok Bookmarks Profile More Post aniket @aniketeye Article See new posts Conversation Julien Bek @JulienBek Services: The New Software 2.6M The next $1T company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm. Every founder building an AI tool is asking the same question: what happens when the next version of Claude makes my product a feature? They’re right to worry. If you sell the tool, you’re in a race against the model. But if you sell the work, every improvement in the model makes your service faster, cheaper, and harder to compete with. A company might spend $10K a year for QuickBooks and $120K on an accountant to close the books. The next legendary company will just close the books. Intelligence vs Judgement Writing code is mostly intelligence. Knowing what to build next is judgement. Translating a spec into code, testing, debugging: the rules are complex but they are rule

@JulienBek: Services: The New Software The next $1T company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm. Every founder building an AI tool is asking the same question: what happens when the next version of Claude makes my product a feature? They’re right to worry. If you sell the tool, you’re in a race against the model. But if you sell the work, every improvement in the model makes your service faster, cheaper, and harder to compete with. A company might spend $10K a year for QuickBooks and $120K on an accountant to close the books. The next legendary company will just close

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