> What if software suddenly wanted to ship? What if all of that immense bureaucracy, the endless processes, the mind-boggling range of costs that you need to make the computer compute, just goes poof?
This is the piece of the puzzle I have yet to see. Claude is perfectly capable of writing code but that doesn’t clear up the bureaucracy. I suspect this is where a lot of little 1 to 10 person companies will have an edge. But that’s always been true. The test will be if the small companies can scale without issue or if they never have to.
> All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.
> What if software suddenly wanted to ship? What if all of that immense bureaucracy, the endless processes, the mind-boggling range of costs that you need to make the computer compute, just goes poof?
This is the piece of the puzzle I have yet to see. Claude is perfectly capable of writing code but that doesn’t clear up the bureaucracy. I suspect this is where a lot of little 1 to 10 person companies will have an edge. But that’s always been true. The test will be if the small companies can scale without issue or if they never have to.
Guest pass link (hope it works): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion/ai-software.html?...
> All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.
https://archive.is/03HeH