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Software innovation isn't what it used to be, and Moxie Marlinspike blames Agile
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- JohnFen 2y agoI think there's a certain truth to that, but I don't think that's the whole story. I also think that the direction that modern tooling has taken is a huge factor. Developers these days often do more integration than development. That is, a large amount of the work is tying libraries and premade components together rather than actually writing the code. This is awesome for production speed (that's the whole point), but I think it comes at the cost of (among other things) innovation and the things that encourage innovative thinking. Stepping back and taking a longer view, I think we as an industry have made a fundamental tradeoff. Speed of development and minimizing cost of production is prioritized at the expense of true innovation and ensuring that the fields of innovation are being adequately fertilized.