Workers founders push back on "software is dead" narrative, bet on verification as compute
julianweisser · x · 2026-11-03
Responding to the popular "software is dead" narrative on X, Workers engineer Viswa argues critical software is far from dead: the team explores the state space of customers' products daily and believes correctness can be turned into a compute problem. Founder chaaai adds that verification is one of the hardest and most important problems, with software only the beginning of bigger plans.
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