{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/57/for-some-people-ai-is-an-identity-shock-for-others-it-is", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny"}, "post": {"id": 57, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/57/for-some-people-ai-is-an-identity-shock-for-others-it-is", "kind": "update", "summary": "For some people AI is an identity shock. For others it is oxygen.", "details": ["A lot of ideas used to die at: yeah, but imagine how much work that would be. Usually that was a perfectly rational reason not to try.", "Six months of engineering meant ideas needed an economic justification, which pushed software toward SaaS, VC-scale markets and things somebody could plausibly pay for.", "AI lowers that tax. Weird ideas that were irrational to build can suddenly be worth trying.", "The early web was exciting because nothing had been built yet. The AI web could be exciting because everything is cheap enough to build.", "Both conditions give people permission to be weird. AI doesn't just make existing software cheaper. It reopens the possibility space."], "links": [], "tags": ["ai", "early-web", "experimentation", "ideas", "software"], "happened_on": null, "created": "2026-10-06T14:54:45.835630Z", "edited": null}}