AI and low-code tools are collapsing the gap between technical and business expertise, letting one person build and run a software company alone. Y Combinator's bet on teaching founders both skills is now the default. Large specialized teams become optional.
A technology business requires having both technology and business knowledge in your head. I think the era of one person who's a domain expert and the other person who's a technical expert has largely passed, particularly as we are able to express ourselves into, you know, AI-based or agent-based development systems, which pretty soon we're just going to call software development. And it's just going to be what everybody can use. And that means the technical parts are certainly going to matter, the systems you need to go build out. But both sides are have much better knowledge and operate with much more of a mind meld. That means a solopreneur who is able to keep the whole thing in their head is going to have an even bigger advantage than they used to. This kind of was always true. This is like the thesis behind Y Combinator— take tech people and teach them some business. It's the thesis behind low-code— take business people, give them more capability with tech. But now that we're doing this with AI, I think we're going to find this is really the cure for almost all software businesses and almost all businesses that are software.
