I go to conferences where people share lessons, and it feels like we’re discussing the best way to season a turkey that’s burnt to black.
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Increasingly I find myself thinking about the question of what these machines are *for*.
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And more and more I think that this is the root of the problem.
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We are not building things meant to work or last. We don't do it because we don't *want* that. Our "customers" don't want it
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Customers meaning the people paying engineers' bills more so than the end users
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The things the tech industry builds are for growth. It is for inflating new markets, then abandoning them.
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Funding goes where growth is. An area which is mature is almost dead.
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I think about iOS. Each new iOS breaks all the apps. And that's probably okay to Apple bc Apple cares about new apps not old
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not to take away from the issue of tooling, but I think that's a slight disservice to people who work on compat
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