[maest]

> stupid last minute changes

Those are a feature of Software Engineering, as opposed to Civil Engineering.

If there was a cheap way to turn Towers into Bridges (and the cost of failure was comparable to that of an app having an outage), our infrastructure would look a lot different.

I know quickly changing requirements are a pain for those who have to do the implementation, but, commercially, that flexibility has significant value.

[bluGill]

Everything you can do in software someone could do with a few ASICs. software is several orders of magnitude cheaper, and that is before you account for hhihiwhow eeeasy it is to change.