What links Adobe’s open-source competitor, and the art of drone warfare? A new age of software.
In this week’s episode of Disconnected, Jag and Jason explore two big shifts driven by increasingly accessible technology: AI’s ability to help recreate existing software, and the ability to make military force cheaper and more widely available than ever before.
We’ll dive into what happens to software pricing, trust, and whether autonomous systems should ever make decisions about human targets…
This episode of Disconnected covers:
AI-assisted reverse engineering and the erosion of software moats
Personalised, on-demand software and changing AI pricing models
Trust, data protection, and liability for AI-generated tools
The economics of drone warfare
Autonomous weapons, human responsibility, and the limits of regulation
Episode Highlights:
“If your app runs on a piece of hardware like your computer on a client device, you have to assume that an agent can just map it and clone it over a weekend.” - 8:40 - Jason Kapadia
“A small development team with powerful AI agents might eventually challenge products that previously required hundreds of engineers.” - 9:55 - Jag Sharma
“Imagine saying to your agent, ‘Build me a lightweight photo editing application that does these 12 things. Works exactly the way I like it because my agent knows the way I like it, and doesn’t include everything else.’” - 13:55 - Jag Sharma
“I think that trust then becomes the biggest moat, because if anyone can spin up a reasonable version of a tool, users have more options.” - 20:15 - Jason Kapadia
“AI may not kill software, but it may kill software scarcity.” - 25:25 - Jag Sharma
“Drones are not democratising military power. I think they’re democratising the ability to cause harm.” - 32:00 - Jag Sharma
“The most disruptive weapon might be the one that is just cheap enough to lose.” - 38:10 - Jag Sharma
“The danger isn’t only that machines become more capable of making lethal decisions. It’s that competition makes humans feel they can no longer afford to make those decisions.” - 47:20 - Jag Sharma
Links & references:
Jason Kapadia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkapadia/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonkapadia/
Jag Sharma: