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We should stop thinking about software as anything other than getting the computer to do what we want it to do for us

We should stop thinking about productivity as anything other than getting the humans to do what we want them to do for us

whoops, nope, that's super different than what I just said

People make software. If we devalue how software works it devalues the people making the software, transitively. When you say the first one, leadership hears the second one. These two statements are tightly related. Your flippancy may secure your bag. But it's corrosive to products and people.