Fifteen years after Marc Andreessen declared that "software is eating the world," we are entering the next phase: intelligence itself is becoming abundant and nearly free.

Just as information became abundant through the internet, expertise and judgment — the scarce resource that was locked inside trained professionals — is now descending the cost curve at extraordinary speed. This descent is happening on two compounding curves at once: cheaper hardware and more efficient models. The result is that high-quality reasoning, once expensive and rationed, is rapidly becoming a commodity.

Open source has evolved from a software development model into a sophisticated corporate strategy weapon.

Forward-thinking companies now deploy it deliberately to:

AI can fake effort. It cannot fake time.

Software features and intelligence can now be cloned in days. The enduring advantages are those accumulated slowly through real-world operation and physical reality.