Software has always been dead.

Only living things (human programmers) can keep it going and be the life support to help the code not fade away.

All of our calories are spent making these dead things be artificially alive.

Software is dead, it cannot adapt itself.

Every piece of code you write is a thing that's rotting, you need to spend your calories to make it not rot.

The need to support it pins you down, constrains you from doing transcendent things.