Building Software on the Eve of ASI: Six Core Opportunities
pzakin · x · 2026-08-05
The author assumes we are in the foothills of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) and explores key areas still worth building in software:
- Personal Models: Making personal taste programmable and self-custodied, offering a counter-positioned opportunity against frontier labs.
- Autonomous Loops: Building self-improving systems with orchestration layers that process sensor signals to trigger agent responses.
- Simulations: Using synthetic users in simulated environments to uncover new problems without needing production data.
- Novel Internet Organizations: Exploring new coordination forms like data cooperatives and agents pooling resources, replacing disrupted human labor models.
- Alignment/ASI Observability: Analyzing the behavior of superintelligent systems will be critical for any company building or using advanced models.
- Programmatic Firms: Automating core business operations (incorporation, payroll, hiring, purchasing) through API-first dependencies.
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