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THE AGE OF COMPOSABLE SOFTWARE

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Software has always faced a brutal trade-off - you can have customization or affordability, never both. Affordability always won. That's why personal computers were never really personal, and most apps follow "one codebase to rule them all." AI changes this math so dramatically that the trade-off might finally break down. Instead of killing software, AI could make it infinitely personalized - built for an end-market of one.