Post #3839715
2026-07-15 17:22 UTC
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems aside, i've been reading up on watchmaking and have seen talks from watchmakers bemoaning the rise of cheap quartz watches, with their poor battery life and short shelf life, as their whole industry got commoditised from underneath them, transforming into luxury goods for collectors
and software already has some of the commoditisation already, like say drupal ecosystem, or not having to write your own os
so unless fashions change again it feels we're on similar path
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@tef@mastodon.social 2026-07-15 17:24
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems at the same time things could end up more like the spreadsheet, replacing a lot of the need for programmers for mostly "trivial" programs or disposable calculations but uh yeah i don't think any of us is ready for the tidal wave of programs we wish were still written in excel