We are trapped in someone else's software.

· Bits and Bobs 5/18/26
  • We are trapped in someone else's software.
    • Before, when it was hard to build software, the software was a scaffolding we could gain strength from.
      • What else could you do, anyway?
      • It was too expensive to make your own software.
    • Now, it's increasingly a cage that holds us back.
      • It tells us what we can and cannot do.
      • A monkeytrap.
    • Now using someone else's software feels like a liability.
      • "What happens if I want to add a feature it doesn't have?"
    • Now that software is cheap, it's possible to make software for yourself that is better for you than anything that another person could have made for you.
    • Using someone else's software is holding you back.
    • Using software that you can't adapt feels like living in the stone age.