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are your problems software-shaped?

This post originally appeared in Jasmine’s Substack.

“The barriers to building software are falling to zero—but most people still don’t know what to build, because they don’t yet have ‘software vision.’”

If you tell a friend they can now instantly create any app, they’ll probably say “Cool! Now I need to think of an idea.” Then they will forget about it, and never build a thing. The problem is not that your friend is horribly uncreative. It’s that most people’s problems are not software-shaped, and most won’t notice even when they are.

I began thinking about vibecoding and personal software last May when writing a piece for the WSJ. The barriers to building apps are falling to zero, yet the only people doing it seemed to already be in tech. My friend Lucas Gelfond analogized this conundrum to the art of parkour. To most citydwellers, stairwells are stairwells, and walls are walls. But hostile architecture is no deterrent to the traceur. They develop what’s called parkour vision: “walls become nothing more than ‘vertical floors’ for example, there to be run up or along; metal handrails seem to morph into intricate pathways to be walked; gaps in architecture become spaces to be filled with dynamic jumps.”