What Arvid Kahl thinks about AI and jobs

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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1. 13 Mar 2026

   Our readingSoftware businesses that merely transform incoming data and pass it back out are highly vulnerable to being replaced by agentic AI.

   Their wordsIf you run a software business that is purely transformative - that takes incoming data, does something to it, and turns the data back out - that will be a problem.

   ↗Data Is the Only Moatthebootstrappedfounder.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

2. 4 weeks earlier

3. 13 Feb 2026

   Our readingGPT-based AI systems can now reliably automate around 80% of data acquisition and verification work.

   Their wordsThe GPT systems have gotten so good that they can do a reliable 80% of the work I used to do when it comes to data acquisition and verification.

   ↗When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Offthebootstrappedfounder.com 2nd of 3 in this piece