Timely piece by Craig Mod: Software Bonkers

Some snippets:

Yes: I’m certainly an anomaly. In that I’m a big ’ole dork with a strong, lifelong love of technology and a degree in computer science, who is compulsively opinionated about software. TaxBot2000 would be mostly useless to many of you. It’s all custom to my particular situation, which basically nobody else in the world shares. Software for N of 1. Damn useful to me.

What does this mean for the future of software? I don’t know. (Nobody does.) Maybe we really should be shorting a bunch of SaaS companies. (Don’t worry, a host of new ones will take their place.) I’m canceling my Quicken subscription. It’s only going to get easier to build things like TaxBot2000. We’re still in the dorks-only phase of model-assisted programming, but I can imagine soon-to-arrive interfaces where you just drag and drop components while narrating your desires with your voice, the models able to perform the “brainstorming,” “planning,” and “work” — operations that can take ten minutes or longer today — in mere seconds tomorrow. There will be a fluidity to software in the future. Version numbers will be pointless. We’ll all have our own versions. Claude Code be our partner in production. As you imagine new features, Claude produces them.

In a nutshell, it’s both an exciting and scary time to be a professional in the software industry right now. It’s also a kick in the pants for me to get to building things for fun. In the recent years, my tinkering for fun has fallen precipitously. It’s now do-or-die.