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> I think you'll have a lot more independent software devs. I think that's good, corporations were surprisingly bad at developing software.

Will you, though? I mean, working on software for a living means having someone paying you to do something. If a corporation with an established business and reliable revenue can't justify paying you for your work, who do you expect to come in and cover your rent?

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I don't know if you've worked for an "established" corporation developing software before but most of what they pay you for is dealing with internal (arguably mostly social) stuff. Some minority is actual useful software development work.

> (...) but most of what they pay you for is dealing with internal (arguably mostly social) stuff.

Not really. They pay you to deliver something, but you also need to coordinate and interact with people. That involves coordinating and syncing.

There is absolutely no position or role whatsoever, either in a big corporation or small freelancer gig, that you do not need to coordinate and interact with people.

Pray tell, how do you expect to be paid while neither delivering results nor coordinating with anyone else?

And yet the systems built at these places far exceed what an indie dev can do

Not sure whether it's the systems built there, or the customer bases that they have.

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