I've been in software development 28 years. Seems like we're writing the same stuff we always did, except now it's in a language virtual machine running in a co

I've been in software development 28 years. Seems like we're writing the same stuff we always did, except now it's in a language virtual machine running in a container running in a hardware abstraction VM running on actual hardware in the cloud. Thanks to hardware advances, we can move exponentially sharper images, bigger files, more polygons, but the actual complexity of what software is doing is increasing at a slow linear pace. The biggest gains now are in horizontal scaling, we can now handle way more users in parallel than we ever did 10 years ago. But for most products that don't need to handle a billion users, it's at least as hard to produce a shipping product as it was 20 years ago.