Traditional Software
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Xin: Much of traditional software will be rewritten with data and agents
“Actually, I think many of the traditional software will be sort of rewritten with this new paradigm, which is just get the data to be there. And then they slap some agent on top.”
Song: Traditional real estate software failed because it couldn't handle operational variability
“In the past, you've really just needed a person because traditional software couldn't handle the variability that was required. So, if you needed a person anyway, there wasn't really a motivation to buy technology.”
Roy: Generative AI has industrial cost structures, not zero marginal costs
“Generative AI is not traditional software economics. It's not like essentially zero marginal cost. It's not certainly not social media, but not even traditional software. It's a completely different cost structure. It's more industrial in my opinion than tradi…”
Wolf: AI margins trail traditional software but easily beat human services
“AI has far worse margins than traditional software, but it has way better margins than human services.”
Wolf: Healthcare will leapfrog traditional software and go straight to AI
“We think we're about to have a similar moment in healthcare where we're gonna leapfrog over traditional software and we're gonna go straight from human services to AI.”
Delangue: Traditional software startup rules are outdated for AI
“A lot of the things that we learn with traditional software are like outdated with AI.”
Taylor: Companies must manage AI mistakes operationally rather than eliminating them
“Stop putting, you know, AI software in the bucket of computers and that rule set and how you deal with it to try to get to, you know, five nines of repeatability and say, okay, this is actually gonna be, A really creative, really impactful, much lower cost sol…”