I think there could be a version of our industry with people doing better work. And it’s worthwhile to study why we don’t have that industry.
Yes it’s incentives - but why these incentives exist and not others is an interesting question to study.
In the 2010s we pushed everyone to learn how to code and maybe lost some of our higher standards. Maybe we’re doing that now with AI?
Maybe broader social and economic incentives have had a lot of short term thinking of late? It’s hard to organize society or a company to go in one direction very long before incentives completely change everything. Who knows, maybe that’s a feature, not a bug.
It’s worth asking though why we have this software industry and not another one. I’m not convinced it’s for legitimate reasons.
Yes it’s incentives - but why these incentives exist and not others is an interesting question to study.
In the 2010s we pushed everyone to learn how to code and maybe lost some of our higher standards. Maybe we’re doing that now with AI?
Maybe broader social and economic incentives have had a lot of short term thinking of late? It’s hard to organize society or a company to go in one direction very long before incentives completely change everything. Who knows, maybe that’s a feature, not a bug.
It’s worth asking though why we have this software industry and not another one. I’m not convinced it’s for legitimate reasons.