Pieter Levels claims it’s “the era of personal software” and everyone builds what they need—whenever they need it.
Declaring “software is dead,” a user argues that it’s now the era of personal software, where everyone builds what they need as they need it. They qualify the claim with “I think.”
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In a post, Pieter Levels declared that “software is dead” and predicted an era in which people build personal tools whenever they need them. He later clarified that an AI chat app or agent could do the building on a user’s behalf.
Levels argued that this is already happening in less obvious forms, pointing to AI-generated PDF reports, dashboards and web apps. He expects these tools to become increasingly temporary and embedded inside chat interfaces. In his view, some durable businesses will remain, including social platforms built around community and ecommerce or payment services, but agents may increasingly use them as infrastructure for solving individual users’ problems.
A reply offered a firsthand example and a caveat. Molson Hart wrote that, despite having no formal computer-science training, he had used Claude Code in a browser to turn a simple reporting app into an ERP with additional tools and to replace some software subscriptions. Hart also argued that imagining and specifying what should be built remains less common than Levels suggested.
Peter Yang raised a different constraint, asking whether security, compliance and data privacy can be “vibe coded” for enterprise software. The thread leaves that unresolved, making “software is dead” a forecast about how software may be created and consumed rather than a claim that every existing product can already be replaced.
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@levelsioSoftware is dead It's now the era of personal software and everyone just builds what they need whenever they need it I think
@Molson_HartYou're right, but I'd mitigate it a bit. I'm not a normie but I have no computer science training. I use claude code in browser to write all sorts of stuff for my business. I have some help, but we've gone from having a simple reporting app to an ERP with all sorts of crazy tools and we are, as you said, ending software subscriptions to write our own. Where I'd mitigate is: The ability to conceptualize and visualize what needs to be built is rarer than you think. People can and will say "I am paying $100 per month for this. Build it for me", but that's rare and being able to think of something from scratch is rarer still.
@petergyang@levelsio Let me play devil’s advocate: Most $$$ software is enterprise. Will we be able to vibe code security, compliance, data privacy? Maybe? I don’t know enough about how that works.@levelsioSoftware is dead It's now the era of personal software and everyone just builds what they need whenever they need it I think@Molson_HartYou're right, but I'd mitigate it a bit. I'm not a normie but I have no computer science training. I use claude code in browser to write all sorts of stuff for my business. I have some help, but we've gone from having a simple reporting app to an ERP with all sorts of crazy tools and we are, as you said, ending software subscriptions to write our own. Where I'd mitigate is: The ability to conceptualize and visualize what needs to be built is rarer than you think. People can and will say "I am paying $100 per month for this. Build it for me", but that's rare and being able to think of something from scratch is rarer still.@petergyang@levelsio Let me play devil’s advocate: Most $$$ software is enterprise. Will we be able to vibe code security, compliance, data privacy? Maybe? I don’t know enough about how that works.@levelsioSoftware is dead It's now the era of personal software and everyone just builds what they need whenever they need it I think@Molson_HartYou're right, but I'd mitigate it a bit. I'm not a normie but I have no computer science training. I use claude code in browser to write all sorts of stuff for my business. I have some help, but we've gone from having a simple reporting app to an ERP with all sorts of crazy tools and we are, as you said, ending software subscriptions to write our own. Where I'd mitigate is: The ability to conceptualize and visualize what needs to be built is rarer than you think. People can and will say "I am paying $100 per month for this. Build it for me", but that's rare and being able to think of something from scratch is rarer still.@petergyang@levelsio Let me play devil’s advocate: Most $$$ software is enterprise. Will we be able to vibe code security, compliance, data privacy? Maybe? I don’t know enough about how that works.@levelsioSoftware is dead It's now the era of personal software and everyone just builds what they need whenever they need it I think@Molson_HartYou're right, but I'd mitigate it a bit. I'm not a normie but I have no computer science training. I use claude code in browser to write all sorts of stuff for my business. I have some help, but we've gone from having a simple reporting app to an ERP with all sorts of crazy tools and we are, as you said, ending software subscriptions to write our own. Where I'd mitigate is: The ability to conceptualize and visualize what needs to be built is rarer than you think. People can and will say "I am paying $100 per month for this. Build it for me", but that's rare and being able to think of something from scratch is rarer still.@petergyang@levelsio Let me play devil’s advocate: Most $$$ software is enterprise. Will we be able to vibe code security, compliance, data privacy? Maybe? I don’t know enough about how that works.
