no sure, it definitely happens. Just ambitious software work generally requires considerable funding so generally happens at large companies
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Ambitious software (barring exceptions like bitcoin) need vast datasets, cloud-scale compute ($$$), PhD colleagues versed in esoterica etc.
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The analogy to writing is false. Software is fundamentally a systems-and-teams sport. A better analogy is to legal institutions
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Google's search infrastructure is more like the knowledge base represented in US judicial system case law than like a novel.
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huh, interesting analogy
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but yeah, great software is a few original ideas combined with an enormous heap of "case law" aka bug fixes, UX tweaks, etc.
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Things are changing, but the small teams that build ambitious things are still mostly embedded inside the hearts of big ecosystems
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Wondering if small teams building big things outside big ecosystems did so having operated at scale first and now know where they're going
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I think Gall's Law applies. They happen to find things that can start simple, and scale at a rate that your learning can keep pace with.
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How about open source? What makes ambitious software not decomposable into smaller projects? Couldn't internet itself be one?
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As to why not decomposable, fundamental property of complex systems. See Ashby's law of requisite variety for one version.
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