The New Logistics of Startup Ideas in the AI Age

AI is sharply lowering software-building costs and expanding what software can do, from reasoning and speech to vision and agentic workflows.

Falling inference costs, better AI-generated code, and stronger long-task performance are changing the economics of software creation.

Competitive advantage is shifting away from pure engineering effort and toward product judgment, market timing, and founder decision-making.

Founders should choose ideas for where AI is headed, while still designing around today’s practical limits.