--- image: "/images/notes/software-is-eating-labor.jpg" title: "Software Is Eating Labor" date: 2026-04-17 url: "https://x.com/ccatalini/status/2045185456699285824" tags: ['ai-agi'] deck: "'Software is eating the world' got a sequel: labor becomes software. Everyone is staring at the models; the actual bottleneck is verification." tweetCount: 3 likes: 15 reposts: 2 --- "Software is eating the world" got a sequel: software is eating labor, as labor becomes software. Everyone's staring at the models. The actual bottleneck is verification. Intelligence is commoditizing. What isn't: unique, fresh, proprietary data about what the world actually looks like. That data isn't just training fuel. It's what teaches a verifier to separate real work from confident slop. So AI favors one kind of company: owns a live feed of reality, turns it into labor-as-software, uses that same data to verify the output. Unique data → verification → scaling. Skip the middle and you don't have a business. You have an expensive intern.