What Arvid Kahl thinks about coding agents
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Arvid Kahl has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsthe likelihood of inspiring someone to build a competitor was too high, and the return on sharing was too low to justify the exposure. That threshold has effectively collapsed to zero.
↗The Increasing Risk of Building in Publicthebootstrappedfounder.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsBut the quality of these systems isn't just in the code they write. It's also in the code I don't have to write. And maybe more importantly, their actual value is in the code I would never have written, or could never have written, or never would have wanted to write.
↗When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Offthebootstrappedfounder.com 1st of 2 in this piece