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Software has eaten the world. Communication, entertainment, education, productivity, research, etc. The market is totally addressed. We actually need to slow down and write less code, fix old code, make things more accessible and performant, more secure, more usable, etc.

The correct frontier is quality, not quantity or time-to-market. But that‘s a low-growth or even economically stagnant prospect, so your employers and investors don’t want that, and you can’t sell them on it and get a promotion or even a job.

There could be an argument that one could AI-harness their way into producing better software, but let’s be real, that’s not what your OKRs say.