This. For most of the past decade, the true cost of "developer productivity" was borne by the users of their software in wasted time, wasted electricity, and m

This. For most of the past decade, the true cost of "developer productivity" was borne by the users of their software in wasted time, wasted electricity, and money thrown after buggy or nonfunctional features. At this point in the aviation industry's lifecycle, we had gone from learning that flying was possible to landing on the moon. If software had followed the same trajectory, we'd have AI servants right now. But programmers insist on re-creating the wheel every few years, so instead we just get new frameworks and languages that do what the existing frameworks and languages do, and a whole lot of new bugs as programmers race to adopt the hot new thing.