Software's Slippery Slope: What Amodei's Doomsday Prediction Means for the Industry Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has been warning that software itself is becoming essentially free and the careers built around producing it may not survive.
At a World Economic Forum interview in Davos, he stated that AI's productivity jump will make software so cheap that companies won't need to amortize it over millions of users.
This shift towards a more ephemeral, disposable approach to technology is already underway, as seen in Amodei's example of an app costing just a few cents and being used once before being discarded.