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MENTAL MODEL · M0999

Software is Eating the World

Software is Eating the World
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

As internet infrastructure matures, all industries (film, agriculture, defense, finance) will eventually become software industries, taken over by software companies.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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The inevitability of digital transformation. No matter what you sell, ultimately you must become a software company. If your core business is not codified, you are waiting to be eaten.

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Andreessen's 2011 article argues that software companies are disrupting and reshaping traditional industries. The mechanism is that digitalization enables functions to be implemented in code, with marginal costs approaching zero and extremely fast iteration.

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