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so is this Peak Software

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2024.01.20

Sometimes, when I look at what a mess we've made of software development and delivery, if we haven't perhaps missed the peak of software and are in the decadent denouement. Even the biggest of the Tech Giants can't get their stuff together any more. The tide has turned against the cloud, and agile is feeling stale. I have the strong sense we shouldn't be struggling like this at this time.

It's either peak software or society itself is .. slipping.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong