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2026-08-01 05:47 UTC
You’re argument seems like Suresh’s to me, in that making working software is just laughably easy for a competent engineer.
This begs the question why noone is exploiting this market gap. But there’s a couple explanations…
It can be a coordination problem, in that there are just barely any competent software organisations with enough engineers. The problem can also lie in how software is bought, since customers seem completely unable to determine the competence of vendors. Perceptions on what kind of software is a safe, respectable choice may even be anti-helpful in this regard.
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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-08-01 15:30
Zero Interest Rates Policy from 2008-2022 and lack of antitrust enforcement in the USA lead to two things: incumbent software companies got bigger because they could borrow so much money and buy or crush their competition, and small software companies did not have to make profits now because investors tossed in more money and hoped they would make big profits one day. That world is dead but the industry has not adapted.