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Why does it have to lead to a 10x increase in revolutionary companies?

Next to maintaining and expanding my own network of websites I 10xd writing boring CRUD applications for companies that were otherwise unable to afford it, making all their employees more productive. There's true economic value in that.

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This is fine, but software also needs maintenance, especially security updates. If we have an explosion of new software without the corresponding increase in maintenance work - very likely from clients that pay peanuts for software - the world will be taken over by botnets and malware.

It's going to be a worldwide software experiment.

I just allow access to their application only for their IP address(es) and my deployment server checks if I need to update anything. That's not expensive.

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