Software just rots like a smashed watermelon in a tropical jungle these days if you aren't actively developing it all the time. You can't get off the treadmill

Software just rots like a smashed watermelon in a tropical jungle these days if you aren't actively developing it all the time. You can't get off the treadmill of updating and paying attention, because if you take your eye off the ball for just a few months, you wake up with outages because some service you depended on has deprecated their API and no longer support the way you were calling it before.