[tokyovigilante]

Great article, but a couple of things jarred a bit.

I'm in a technical but non-IT industry that currently rents its software at commercial scale. The software in question that I use is terrible, and it is probably the worst on the market. The industry is such that it is not an exaggeration to say that people have died on account of its flaws. All other solutions in the domain are better but not good.

I have had a slowly-congealing dream/blueprint in my head for over a decade about how the system I use should work, and in the last 6 months I have been accelerated enough by AI (significantly more so by Opus 4.5/6) that I have built a version of the software that I am now using in production at in my job, and it is the most satisfied I have been in my career in the last decade.

Point being (and it was almost made in the article) that the software doesn't actually matter (no-one's reading the assembly either way) but the function and what it enables does. If it doesn't, no end user cares whether it was 25k SLoC or 25M.