software development

6 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 16, 2022 by Janna Bastow · across every show →

Everything said about software development, oldest first

Oct 16, 2022
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Bastow: Separate soft and hard launches to avoid aligning dev and marketing
“So you're just separating soft launch from hard launch so that you don't have this stress of trying to line up two completely different types of projects, your marketing projects and your development projects, which is where a lot of those things fall apart.”
Janna Bastow Oct 16, 2022 ▶ 30:46 Building better roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
May 1, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Truell: One company will build the tool creating almost all software
“I think that there will be one company and to be determined if it's going to be us, but I do think that there will be one company that builds the general tool that builds almost all the world's software. And that will be a very, very generationally big busines…”
Michael Truell May 1, 2025 ▶ 43:34 The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
Jul 31, 2025 bearish
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Taylor: Maintenance, not prototype generation, is the true bottleneck in software
“I'm super excited about vibe coding, but I don't know, like generating a prototype has been the limiting factor in software ever. It's actually like building increasingly complex systems and actually changing them with agility. You know, if you look at the fam…”
Bret Taylor Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 43:04 He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
Sep 7, 2025
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Oji Udezue: Traditional product development time ratios collapse under AI velocity
“For the last 20 years, we've had like very fixed ratios in terms of how what gets done. Like PM takes this amount of time, developers takes the amount of time, go to market takes the amount of time. And I think that contract is basically exploding because the …”
Oji Udezue Sep 7, 2025 ▶ 8:38 How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
Sep 18, 2025 positive
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Foody: Software development has virtually unlimited elastic demand
“Like in accounting, I think realistically we only need so much accounting in the world, right? Like maybe there's areas where we can do more and that'll be good. But it doesn't feel like the world needs a hundred times more accounting. On the other hand, in so…”
Brendan Foody Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 22:32 Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
Aug 30, 2026
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Seshan: Software resembles filmmaking, requiring auteur taste over mere capital
“Software is not like real estate. You don't like put money in and get value out. It is a little bit more like filmmaking, where you can put a lot of money into a film, but that doesn't guarantee that the film is successful or good. There is some like auteur st…”
Tara Seshan Aug 30, 2026 ▶ 14:24 AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
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