Death of Software. Nah. - by Steven Sinofsky - a16z
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AI changes what we build and who builds it, but not how much needs to be built.
Death of Software. Nah. AI changes what we build and who builds it, but not how much needs to be built. Steven Sinofsky Feb 06, 2026 236 14 23 Share | America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts | Too much of what is going on is a race to get to a theoretical end state of a whole new world of business and technology. Many pushing this were around for the tail end of the transition to an internet-based economy and are struggling with what appears to be a “compressed timeline,” much the way people record disruption as a “moment” versus a journey. I’ve been thinking about where we are today with
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