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We’re having a Cambrian Explosion of code. People are able to create so much more than ever before I’ve done it myself and see it with the open source I maintain But I think the software industry is going to suffer

We’re creating more code than we can maintain or understand. With an explosion of new code we’ll see a lot of the code go extinct Even current projects that seemed well supported with company backing are dying without dedicated resources to maintain it

It started happening before AI, good solid open source projects that people just had to keep fiddling with until they were bloated, or had so many breaking changes, every upgrade was a time sink (looking at you gradle)