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This post is so hilarious as this sort of post shows up every decade or so. Hell, in the early 1900s the US Patent Office asked whether everything that was to b
by satvikpendem 2y ago
This post is so hilarious as this sort of post shows up every decade or so. Hell, in the early 1900s the US Patent Office asked whether everything that was to be invented already had been.
- badpun 2y agoThere are plenty of things to invent still, but perhaps no longer in software. Every other field - mining, railroads, car making, chemistry etc. had its huge boom period sparkled by breakthrough innovations, and later settled into a mature field where not as much is happening. Perhaps it's software industry's time for that.
- satvikpendem 2y agoSoftware is not, itself, an industry, it is a layer on top of other industries, many of which still use outdated processes and paradigms. It's just that software engineers build what they know, mainly B2C and apps for other SWEs, not actually for these other industries. It's like saying the "engineering industry" is maturing when in reality there's no such thing, there are engineers for every such industry, like mechanical, nuclear, etc.