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by aleph_minus_one
145 days ago
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> It’s only the tech industry where the voice and ego of small companies hold outsized share of voice and love to claim the contrary. I'd be a little bit careful with this claim: The fact that small companies can have such opinionated opinions without going bust is to me a sign that in particular for software development (but I don't claim that this is transferable to other industries) small teams/companies do have an efficiency advantage. Many hypotheses can be formulated why this might be the case, like - software industry is less regulated - writing good software as the company's product requires a lot less collaboration between many stakeholders than what is necessary for producing other types of sellable products - in software, "having a smart, though opinionated idea" is of a much bigger advantage (also for the company) than in other, more established industries - ... |
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Tangential, but companies have been routinely writing and selling software since at least the 1980s, and longer depending on how you draw the line. That's roughly half a century.
At what point will being "less established" stop being an explanation for the way the software industry works?