The price of software is going to zero

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The cost of coding [something] (that may or may not serve purposes) is approaching 0. That doesn't mean code is (or came) cheap.

I'm reminded of a quote I heard recently, concerning military drones: "hardware becoming cheaper & cheaper. Software that controls it, becoming more & more expensive".

Read: opening a can of pre-coded stuff is 'free'. But: the engineering effort that went into that existing code, and the effort required to improve that, is on a hockey-stick curve.

the price of shitty software is

Value proposition of an awful lot of Enterprise Software is evaluated only in hindsight, and on an institutional tidal wave of "Industry Standard!", FOMO, and all-expensed "Technical Forums".

"Good" is optional in the land of the ERP. Or even "not-gut-rippingly awful"

I suspect we're about to see some interesting days in the alphabet soup of PDM, PLM, ERP, MBSE, PIM, DMS, FMEA, CRM, SRM, ILS, IPS, QMS, LSA, TDM . .

Most companies do not appreciate quality code in my experience. Non-tech anyway.

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