Comment by knollimar
1 month ago
What new things would we do? I do contracting so maybe I'm lowest-bidder-pilled but I feel like drops in price in lean organizations sre going to eat the lunch of shops trying to make more quality software in most software disciplines.
How much software is really required to be extensible?
There is tons of stuff to do. Lots of technologies out there that need to be invented and commercialized. Tons of inefficient processes in business, government, and academia to improve.
None of this means that it will be the kinds of professional specialized software development teams that we're used to doing any of this work, but I have some amount of optimism that this is actually going to be a golden age for "doing useful things with computers" work.
I still think it's more likely to be more of the same thing but with less people.
One man shops being the ideal, and I don't think there will be proportionately more of them
This doesn't mesh with anything that has happened in the development of computing, or technology in general.
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