Software development is a loser’s game

The history of software development is of writing code faster, with less care and less skill, and more bugs.

Partly driven by first-to-market advantage, and the ability to patch culminating in webapps.

Maybe this will change if the software market eventually matures... but the trend is for technology and business models to evolve faster, not slower, requiring new software, and reinforcing the importance of first mover advantage.

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