With inflation and pollution come ignorance and even more confusion...
To begin with, the A in the ABC of software production:
It is not about doing it right, it is about doing the right thing!
Software is about the conceptual side and only marginally about the technicalities. About using our mind, sensibility and intelligence to provide an effective and reliable product and service to people.
This is certainly clear to our customers: Information Technology is a wonderful tool, yet an enabler, never a driver [except that even this is now failing, courtesy progress up to Industry 4.0 (2023-11-09)]. This is seldom clear to present-day software managers and even developers, who should rather realise that the matter in question is predominantly conceptual even at the lowest levels.