>Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale
Terrible is a relative term. Terrible compared to what?
Who said/showed (much less proved) that there's a better way and we just don't follow it to achieve it some optimum?
There's also a semantic confusion here. Compared to e.g. the car industry we're infinitely better at "creating software at scale". We can create a billion copies of a software and distribute it our the world, with marginal cost close to zero.
But the author doesn't mean "creating software at scale" like when they say "car production at scale". They mean production of "large software".
Well, let's see the car industry make a car with the scope, flux requirements, shifting environments, etc that large scale software has...
Terrible is a relative term. Terrible compared to what?
Who said/showed (much less proved) that there's a better way and we just don't follow it to achieve it some optimum?
There's also a semantic confusion here. Compared to e.g. the car industry we're infinitely better at "creating software at scale". We can create a billion copies of a software and distribute it our the world, with marginal cost close to zero.
But the author doesn't mean "creating software at scale" like when they say "car production at scale". They mean production of "large software".
Well, let's see the car industry make a car with the scope, flux requirements, shifting environments, etc that large scale software has...