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.”
Reynold Xin Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 1:07:44 The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
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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.”
Mina Song Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 24:51 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
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…”
Ranjan Roy Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 14:29 Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
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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.”
Daisy Wolf May 30, 2025 ▶ 36:58 Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
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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.”
Daisy Wolf May 30, 2025 ▶ 37:36 Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
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Delangue: Traditional software startup rules are outdated for AI
“A lot of the things that we learn with traditional software are like outdated with AI.”
Clement Delangue Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 1:01:47 The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
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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…”
Bret Taylor Oct 2, 2024 ▶ 1:04:11 Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Tom Blomfield: AI applications are 80-90% traditional software and 10% AI
“Most people building application layer stuff in an AI say it's 80 to 90% traditional software with 10% AI.”
Tom Blomfield May 24, 2024 ▶ 15:08 Sam Altman, Arthur Mensch and more discuss:Which Startups Are Threatened vs Enabled by OpenAI?|E1156 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Verwaest: Traditional media software cannot handle flexible freelance-heavy production workflows
“It's an online platform because it's a world of more and more freelancers and co-producers, and traditional software can't cope with such flexibility.”
Maarten Verwaest Jan 24, 2020 ▶ 1:14 1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

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