What Pieter Levels thinks about Silicon Valley
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Pieter Levels has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIn the most early adopting tech pioneering place that's Silicon Valley new startups aren't even building software anymore And it's debatable if anyone will actually need a custom harness or it won't just be generically offered by the AI frontier companies So software is mostly dead and hardware it is
↗Y Combinator's batch only has harness or hardware startups, so software is mostly deadlevels.io