--- title: "The softwarepocalypse is avoidable" date: 2026-09-07 url: "https://x.com/ccatalini/status/2096980529640083585" tags: [ai-agi, markets] deck: "Frontier labs know when they’ve codified enough of your industry to threaten it. You don’t. An open-weights model plus your proprietary context is how you get a specialist frontier model of your own before theirs arrives." tweetCount: 3 likes: 9 reposts: 0 --- The softwarepocalypse is avoidable. Frontier labs have the speed and surprise advantage: they know when they’ve accumulated enough codified knowledge to threaten your industry. You don’t. But as an industry specialist (e.g. cyber), you can take an open weights model, combine it with your proprietary context, and exceed frontier capabilities today, on both cost and performance. [x.com](https://x.com/ccatalini/status/2087177319253459019) If you don’t act now, you won’t have a frontier specialist model of your own when the labs’ models come for you. Open weights are how you minimize intelligence expropriation risk. [x.com](https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2096101429832552872)