Post #219642
2026-02-02 11:55 UTC
@ekes@drupal.community @derickr@phpc.social @Crell@phpc.social @wwhitlow@indieweb.social That has already happened with human-generated software and we know the cost.
Banks and airlines and other critical infrastructure become unmaintainable because no-one knows how the software does what it does, and trying to replace one component can break the whole thing. So we get giant "software modernization" efforts that experience massive feature creep and we all lose.
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@ekes@drupal.community 2026-02-02 12:57
@robotistry@mstdn.ca @derickr@phpc.social @Crell@phpc.social @wwhitlow@indieweb.social Anologous to what I was thinking about. I think there are fundemental differences between a bank's systems and an OS project though. Communaly maintained projects are the evolving product of a dialogue between people which is framed using the code. The structure of the code, the discussion around understanding, is used in deciding the bigger picture and important: how and what to do.