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2026
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What Dies
A carpenter can build a house alone now.
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Verify
The bottleneck has moved.
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Closer
XP got proximity right. The direction was a constraint, not a principle.
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What Software Is
Software has always been mostly other things. The code is the easy part — the substrate underneath is people, problems, systems, and judgement.
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