Software is cheap now — and that changes everything for la gente

Tereza Tízková has been thinking about this since she was a kid in Prague, when she watched her mom write software and saw how the tools kept getting easier. Her new piece argues that software abundance isn't just a nice-to-have — it's the foundation of everything building right now.

The core idea is simple: the cost of building software has collapsed. What used to take a team of engineers months now takes one person days. The tools — LLMs, open-source models, cloud compute, frameworks — are cheap and getting cheaper. The bottleneck is no longer code; it's judgment.

This is why the best builders right now are the ones who know what to ship and when to ship it. The piece names the difference between people who can write code and people who can write software — one builds what's needed, the other builds what's possible. The second group is winning.

Why this matters for us: the tools are no longer the barrier. What matters is who knows what to build and whether it actually helps la gente — not whether the tech is fancy.