Tuesday 15 October 2024

Collective disaster

"Your code might not be as valuable as you think."
Philomatics, The Value of Source Code, YouTube
Subtitle: Your code is worthless

The video is as cute as it is totally misguided. Not all code, just the poorly thought out and written code that is ubiquitous nowadays, in all guidance as in all practice, is actually a cost, not just worthless: a generally unperceived cost since that is 99% of the industry by now, indeed the very rationale that founds and sustains it is that that is the best we can do.

The fundamental misconception that the problem domain and the solution domain map one-to-one is but one ingredient of that yet-another global corporate-driven fraud and collective disaster.