Naval: The VC Question 'Where's the Software Piece?' Is Dead — AI Coding Agents Made Software the Cheap Part
victor_explore · x · 2026-09-07
Naval Ravikant argues the standard VC question to hardware founders — 'what is the software piece?' — is dead. Software used to be the moat that bought hardware startups time to build their castle; now, with tools like Claude Code, software is commoditized the moment you can specify it, since an AI agent can one-shot or two-shot the implementation. That flips the old logic: hardware is once again the scarce layer, and the software piece is no longer a differentiator. The post quotes @aitapehq's tweet making the same argument.
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