software development

9 statements across 8 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Mar 11, 2021 by Scott Sandell · across every show →

Everything said about software development, oldest first

Mar 11, 2021 bullish
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Sandell: Software development productivity has increased fivefold due to open source
“Just the development of software is now about five times more productive than it used to be.”
Scott Sandell Mar 11, 2021 ▶ 12:25 20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
Mar 20, 2024 bullish
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Lemieux: AI Will Increase Software Jobs by Expanding Developers Into Healthcare
“And you know, what's going to happen is we have a lot more software to write. And that's what people don't realize. Like, is there jobs in software development? Holy shit. Like healthcare agriculture et cetera, like educate, like all these places that need tec…”
Jean-Michel Lemieux Mar 20, 2024 ▶ 50:54 Jean-Michel Lemieux: Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | E1129 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 bullish
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Kant: Software development will stay developer-led while becoming increasingly AI-assisted
“AI for software developers. I don't think anyone in the world anymore questions that software development moving forward is going to be a, for the foreseeable future, a developer-led, AI-assisted world, an increasingly AI-assisted world.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 54:49 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 7, 2024 bullish
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Kant: Software development will be first domain where AI closes human gap
“Our view of Poolside is that the first majorly economically viable capability that is going to close the gap between human intelligence and machine intelligence is software development.”
Eiso Kant Oct 7, 2024 ▶ 15:07 Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 12, 2025
Insight
Simple complex software requires genius developers, not an army
“In order to build such a complex software, because companies are complex, to make it super easy it's more about having the right people, a few of them, a few genius guys, rather than having an army of 10,000 developers.”
Fabien Pinckaers Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 20:14 Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 neutral
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Scott: AI will render traditional product engineering teams obsolete within ten years
“It basically means, and like, I don't think this is next year, but it's probably not going to be 10 years. This whole notion that the, That, that you have teams of people who are, who, whose job is to go anticipate a bunch of very granular user needs in some n…”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 20:35 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
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Casado: AI marks the first time software development itself is disrupted
“This is really the first time like software development and software creation is, is being disrupted.”
Martin Casado Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 1:45 a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 13, 2026 bullish
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Grinberg: Software engineers will build automated factories rather than write code
“The future of software development is where these organizations, instead of having engineers, That build the software. They're going to have engineers that build the factories that build their software.”
Matan Grinberg Jun 13, 2026 ▶ 39:28 OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 29, 2026 bullish
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Reyes: Within five years, anyone will generate software on demand
“I think that the biggest thing that we're going to be surprised by is the fact that we let a sort of like priestly class of maybe two million people decide the fate of all software for all of humanity. And in three to five years, it'll be actually like unthink…”
Eno Reyes Aug 29, 2026 ▶ 1:27:40 Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
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