THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
Decoder with Nilay Patel
- Published
- April 23, 2026
- Duration
- 19:06
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Apr 29, 2026
Discusses ai.
Summary
Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that's been banging around my head for weeks now as we've been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I've been calling it software brain, and it's a particular way of seeing the world that fits everything into algorithms, databases and loops. Software brain is powerful stuff. It's a way of …
Show notes
Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that's been banging around my head for weeks now as we've been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I've been calling it software brain, and it's a particular way of seeing the world that fits everything into algorithms, databases and loops. Software brain is powerful stuff. It's a way of thinking that basically created our modern world. But software thinking has also been turbocharged by AI in a way that I think helps explain th
Themes
- ai