The Super-Individual Stack: AI-Native Product Directions and Solo Builder Ops in 2026
“Software is eating the world.” — Marc Andreessen, 2011 “Now AI is eating software—and the question for the rest of us is: what’s left for one human, alone, in front of a screen?” — me, asking myself one night in 2026. Prologue: How Big Does One Person Need to Be? In February 2026, I ran my first complete overnight agent. I set a prompt, dropped it into Claude Code in a loop, and went to sleep. At 7 a.m. the next morning, what I saw on the screen was: 6 commits, 4 PRs, 3 auto-rolled-back failures, and a research brief I hadn’t even read myself. ...