[rektide]

The description is everything. It has a more local target with where it goes, but the starting premise has repercussions that shake this civilization deeply, I in countless ways:

> Software is opaque, unknowable.

This ain't just about software practitioners, it's about mankind having built a far off remote invisible kingdom that actually is 4 dimensionally (many dimensionally) all around us all the time.

This IMO is the only interesting fight now. Theres trends & tech & control happening that matters, but this question is mostly social, mostly cultural, of whether we walk forever into proprietary consumerized walled gardens, or whether the general project of computing finds a stake where it can uncloak & reveal a true self to the public, whether we can find good common roots to express ourselves with, that can be useful to everyone not wearing developer monk robes.

[nottrobin]

Yes, completely agree. It did occur to me that I could have taken this into the political realm but decided to keep it bounded in software practice itself for now.

Maybe a follow-up soon.