No, AI is not about to kill the software industry

Instead of falling victim to the technology, software’s established players have every shot at leveraging it to their own advantage.

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In a remarkably influential 2011 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Marc Andreessen declared that software was “eating the world.” From entertainment to commerce to transportation, he argued, startups that were about code at their core were disrupting many of the world’s most deeply entrenched businesses. That was just the beginning, he warned: “Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.“

Fifteen years later, we know that some of the disruptors........

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