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I wonder if part of the problem is the always new technologies used. Maybe if the world had stuck with some sort of improved version of C and got really good at it, with all kinds of great tools and techniques, we might be able to deliver code efficiently.

[barking_biscuit]

I definitely think that's an aspect of it, but it's not one we can really do a whole lot about. The nature of what we do and the skillsets we have mean when we encounter problems we then come up with solutions and those solutions have their own problems, so it just infinitely recurses.

I think that's a lot more controllable on an individual level than on an industry level. I'm sort of attempting to do that myself in some ways by just picking a stack and working my way through building something in it end to end covering absolutely every aspect I can imagine in terms of software engineering "jobs to be done" and as I build it, going through industry go-to resources of how to best do X and properly implementing the advice. I think if more of us bothered to do that we'd be far more capable of starting software companies off at a much more advanced stage of technical maturity and hence with less problems that arise from the hacky shit we cobble together under financial pressure to ship, ship, ship. That would ideally result in significantly less churn.

Essentially, yes. Just take something and get ultra good at it and then stick with that thing.