Marc Brooker

They become more dependent on people.

They become more dependent on politics and policy and our various irrationalities as humans.

And so driven by that,

you know, there is going to be a huge amount of, and a shrinking over time amount, but a huge amount of the software industry that is run in what I might call the old way, right?

past techniques, past languages, past technologies, and there's real economic opportunity in engaging with that part of the world.

As we saw with analog electronics, analog electronics still very much exist.

In fact, there are parts of the world like radio and power systems where there's been incredible technological advancement in those fields.

But they have become more niche.

And so, you know, digital became the mainstream.

We wouldn't be talking like we are today if it wasn't for this, you know, 12 orders of magnitude or whatever explosion in digital transistor counts.

But there's interesting opportunity there.

And I think that interesting opportunity is going to change shape and become more and more specialized and more and more niche and great careers to be built there.

And then there is the mainstream, which I think is going to adopt these new technologies from agentic development to AI-powered development to specification-driven development and a whole lot of other new things whose names we don't even know yet.

to build software at a speed and a cost that is unimaginable to do with the old techniques.

And I think that is where, correctly, the majority of the industry is going to be going.

I think that's where the majority of careers are going to be built.

I think that's where the majority of economic opportunity is.

It's the space I'd be in if I was building a company today.

It's the space I'm in in my role.

And, you know, the one I would sort of personally be most excited about.