This line is the difference between your thinking and people like them: > What if companies actually have about as many systems as they need They think ~"comp

This line is the difference between your thinking and people like them: > What if companies actually have about as many systems as they need They think ~"companies don't have as many systems as they need". My opinion? Even without GenAI, our sector has too many cooks. I've not valued most of the stuff that was added to any consumer facing software product or service in the last decade or so. Facebook has, if anything, regressed since 2007. YouTube (itself, no comment on the content) peaked sometime around 2016. SwiftUI (2019) still isn't an improvement over UIKit. Google Maps is very marginally worse than it was in 2018. MacOS has improved so slowly since it was named after cats (2012) that it's hard to even care about the aggregated changes since then (even if I ignore all the bugs*), and similarly for Google Translate since they bought and integrated Word Lens in 2014. Entirely new things are sometimes (like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion) genuinely interesting and make a novel departure from what came before, but it's very rare. * https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2025/06/19-15.56.44.html https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2025/06/19-15.56.44.html