[adityaathalye]

Post author here. Guilty as charged re: rambling. Brevity is not my strong suit.

To the second point, I'd say I'm in violent agreement with you. In fact, my whole thesis is that because software mutates all the time, it is observed that successful software mutates successfully.

Obnoxiously quoting self:

> Unlike all other machines, it is pure concept, and as such it is infinitely malleable and mutable. And mutate it does, all the time.

and several paragraphs below that...

> Not only does all software mutate, we also end up performing all kinds of deep surgery on the organisation that produces it. The whole thing—product and org—is simultaneously flexed, reconfigured, and even totally redesigned in-place with rapidity that is very uncommon in other industries. Why? Because software fundamentally is peoples' thoughts being played on repeat.

[jkmcf]

I'm sorry this blog post was so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter.