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What does "consume more code and tech than we produce" mean?

• lupire 4y ago
  Parent thinks there is a fix amount of code needed in the world, and the only reason (some) programmers earn a lot of money is that a relatively small number of people produce that code. They ignore that the cast majority of code generates demand for more code.
  • MikePlacid 4y ago
    Exactly! A successful software project creates a building block. A basic human desire is a) to modify the successful design to perform some other task, and/or 2) to use an existing building block to build something bigger and more complex.
  • ls612 4y ago
    The “Lump of Code” fallacy