spiral ladder

Software is pure “thought stuff”. One person can write code and billions can run it. If anything, our linear time produces exponential value. Therefore, I’ve never personally believed that developer time is expensive, that we have a “typing” problem. Or that English is somehow a better way to express code than a language as explicit as Zig. Granted, there’s tons of (non valuable) bespoke software that LLMs can now create. But the valuable thought stuff? Great systems coders are becoming more valuable than ever. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.