Marc Brooker

Where you have to often, you know, turn it off and turn it back on again, which is this very, very painful thing for a team or an organization to do.

And, you know, and so again, like you might go here, it's operating a system with seeing nothing like this.

But if you look at the most impactful issues, it's actually fairly common as an underlying cause for those issues.

And so, you know, it's kind of both of these things are being quite uncommon and being rather common.

Yeah, I mean, it's maybe harder than ever to tell the future.

And so this is a set of maybe guesses and predictions about the future.

So I'll say the first thing I deeply believe about software is

We have only just started to see the impact that software is going to have on the world.

There is such an opportunity for more software to exist, bigger software, better software, more personal software, all of these things.

And so software has, throughout its 60-ish year history, been supply constrained.

And I think that's going to remain true.

I think the opportunity for software in the world is just almost unbounded.

And that's really exciting, right?

It's really exciting to be at a moment when the economics of building software are changing and are changing rather quickly.

And that gives us an opportunity to think about what could we do in the world with a lot more software?

You know, a lot more software personalization, a lot more just the right software in the right place at the right time.

And, you know, that gives me a huge amount of, you know, excitement about the future of this industry because, you know, we have a massive opportunity ahead of us driven by these changing economics of software development.

Now, also with those changes, there are going to be needs for us as software practitioners, people who build software, people who love software to adapt.

And that means that software careers are going to look different.

They're going to look different early on.