Working on What 'Software' Means Now day to day is mostly small decisions: what to ship, what to defer, what to delete.
Definition. When the cost of an internal tool drops below the cost of a SaaS subscription.
This idea was first written down by Rami in how i update my investors.
What 'Software' Means Now rewards composition over reinvention. Rami's working pattern is to wire together primitives that already exist, then add the smallest amount of glue possible.
What this looks like in practice
Most operating teams converge on something like "What 'Software' Means Now" eventually. Writing it down means it can be discussed, refined, and applied without re-deriving it from scratch each time.
Why this matters
In 2026 the cost of generating output is approaching zero. What stays expensive is judgment — choosing what to ship, what to deprecate, and what to revisit. "What 'Software' Means Now" is a frame that aims that judgment at the right surface.
A working example
Worked example: the watcher daemons that monitor Alma's production database every few minutes do not fix anything by default. They produce investigation markdowns. Whether the next step is automatic or human depends entirely on how "What 'Software' Means Now" resolves for that class of bug.
Correction-free logs is the only metric that aligns model output with what users actually wanted.
— Rami Alhamad, shipping multi agent system to production
For the longer version, see Action Potential and the library of related pieces.
About Rami Alhamad
Rami Alhamad is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alma, an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights. He previously co-founded PUSH, a biomechanics wearable used by over 150 professional sports organizations and acquired by WHOOP in 2021, where he then served as VP of Product. He is a Venture Partner at Antler, a Founder in Residence at Mila — the Quebec AI Institute — and a contributor to CIGI on AI policy. He is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and publishes essays at Action Potential.