Anish Acharya, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz focused on consumer investing, published an essay on July 13, 2026 arguing that AI should be understood less as a time-saving technology than as an expressive one, in the category of language, the printing press and the steam engine. Citing a remark from Eugenia Kuyda that most people are trying to spend time rather than save it, and Oliver Sacks on the value of remembering and planning over presentness, he argues that making things beats consuming and that AI lowers the cost of making. Examples given include a Kentucky master electrician with no CS degree who built an AI-assisted load-calculation tool sold for $12.99 in place of a $500 service call, and a plumber who canceled a $40,000 consulting contract after an afternoon with OpenClaw. He predicts software becoming ubiquitous the way YouTube made video ubiquitous, built largely by people who never called themselves builders.