What's Worth Building in Software as We Approach ASI

pzakin · x · 2026-08-05

Investor Peter Zakin outlines key software opportunities assuming we are nearing Artificial Superintelligence (ASI):

Personal Models: Programming personal taste and judgment in a self-custodied way offers a strong counter-position against frontier labs.
Autonomous Loops: Building self-improving systems and orchestration layers that process sensor signals to trigger agent responses.
Simulations: Running software with synthetic users in simulated environments to continuously uncover new problems without production data.
Novel Internet Organizations: Exploring new coordination mechanisms like data cooperatives, resource-pooling agents, and potentially DAOs.
Alignment/ASI Observability: Analyzing the behavior of superintelligent systems will become a critical need for a broad set of companies.
Programmatic Firms: Automating core business operations (incorporation, payroll, purchasing) through API-first architectures.

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