2030-shaped software - by Ian Vanagas - build mode
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The future of software we’re building for at PostHog
By 2030, AI agents will be the primary users of software. Many of the conversations and decisions about what we’re building now are impacted by this. More and more, we’re aiming towards building “2030-shaped software.” This is a vague aspiration and “agent-first software” isn’t much better. But, while we can’t predict the future, we can share how we’re thinking about the problem. The current era of software is designed for humans to do all the work, but in 2030, agents will be the ones doing. Agents have shown that they can do the obvious stuff themselves. What does this leave humans to…
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