Founder maps 3 money-making software areas in the AI era, from RL robots to agent maintenance
MarcJSchmidt · x · 2026-10-19
Marc J. Schmidt lays out three software areas where he sees money being made in the AI era: (1) reinforcement learning to automate factory hardware that currently needs humans — low competition; (2) AI agent setup and maintenance with smart harnesses and custom models — every company needs it, moderate competition; (3) writing classical software 100x faster — already cheap and will fade as models improve. A founder's take on where moats actually persist.
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