"Software has become liquid": Reddit on SOTA models dissolving the walls between programs
a300a300 · reddit · 2026-10-03
Reddit user a300a300 argues that stable SOTA-model capability is ending "fixed" software: the boundaries between programs and OSes are dissolving — software has become liquid.
- Evidence cited: Minecraft running inside Elden Ring, and Opus 5.5 porting Windows-only apps to Mac and Linux. Work that once took domain expertise and weeks now takes 1-2 days or even hours with Opus 5.5 or GPT 6.1 Sol.
- Websites are equally malleable: your agent can dig through a site's JS bundle and CSS via a HAR file saved from the network tab. Anything running on your computer can be reshaped.
- The author frames this as the "open sourcing of everything," noting Anthropic's new personalization feature embraces the same mindset.
- The only remaining moats in the digital world: hardware (GPUs to run games) and cloud backends — though models are getting scarily good at guessing those too.
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