The Programming Priesthood

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Funny, I remember working at a software security company, in the digital marketing department, and realizing "programming is essentially the language of an elevated priesthood".

I agree with the premise of the article. I think at some people at some companies indeed unnecessarily complicate the software they build, in part, to protect themselves: to make their product appear better by preemptively complicating it in the name of some claimed benefit.

A technical moat is the level of complexity associated with developing a product. It's commonly associated with software as a service (SaaS) business models, but the same idea applies to direct-to-consumer retail. The most successful companies have a product that is complicated to produce [emphasis added] https://www.airhouse.io/blog/technical-moat

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