Fascinating take from Steve Yegge a couple of months ago: Software Survival 3.0.

"For purposes of computing software survival odds, we can think of {tokens, energy, money} all as being equivalent, and all are perpetually constrained. This resource constraint, I predict, will create a selection pressure that shapes the whole software ecosystem with a simple rule: software tends to survive if it saves cognition."

A friend's distillation: "Binary tools with proven solutions to common problems make sense when reuse is nearly free and regenerating them is token-costly.^[au]"