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> This type of progression in software development is inevitable. Groups of people writing individual lines of code for bespoke apps will one day go the same wa
by cheez 11y ago
> This type of progression in software development is inevitable. Groups of people writing individual lines of code for bespoke apps will one day go the same way looms in factories went after the industrial revolution.
> I run a software company, and we've actually moved away from fixed price projects and only provide development on a day rate. Fixed price/scope/timescale projects are incredibly risky, require massive amounts of project management resource, and can be insanely unprofitable if the specifications for the work are not watertight and the client isn't managed well.
These two sentences don't seem to make sense. On the one hand, you say it's inevitable. On the other hand, as someone who has RUN a software company, you say you couldn't figure it out. Is that correct?
- simonswords82 11y agoIt is of course inevitable that somebody more intelligent than me is going to automate the development of bespoke software. We don't automate software development, we still do it the old fashioned way. As such rather than attempt to tackle the problems associated with fixed price projects, we changed our business model to charge a day rate and reduce risk that way. We took this approach because we don't have millions of dollars of investors money in the bank to allow us to trial and error other solutions.
- cheez 11y agoPerhaps. A lot of meatspace architecture has been automated as well so you may be right in your prediction, but I think it will come about more organically through the use of specialized software tools. Eventually developers/engineers will be just like plumbers.