"Software is eating software" is true, but not good. It's not good at all. Take a look at the manner in which so many companies use project management software

"Software is eating software" is true, but not good. It's not good at all. Take a look at the manner in which so many companies use project management software like Jira: to create a Big Brother system. Developer's velocity drops below 15 "story points" per week? There's your bad guy! Some companies use time-tracking software (designed to help an individual manage her own time better, and certainly not to abuse workers) to take micromanagement to a new level. Then there's LinkedIn, which may have been started with good intent but makes it astronomically more difficult for people to reinvent themselves (giving even more power to corporate management, which is thus empowered to fuck with peoples' careers long after they leave). The real bad guys have been using us (programmers) for decades to wage their war on the workers. That's most of what they want us to do. Our effective purpose is not build flying cars or cure cancer, but to vaporize jobs for the poor and deliver the proceeds, efficiently, to the rich. Since we are also workers (we're the upper-working class) it's not surprising that we'd see our own weapons used on us.