Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In short, software is eating the world.
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
There is a constant need for new systems and new software.
One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.
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