How software engineering is changing: a tale of two eras

Good article. But this era sounds like absolute hell (to me, 30 years in hardware/software dev).

It reminded of the workplace of Winston Smith in the film of the book 1984. An endless stream of canisters of 'changes' arriving via the pneumatic tube system. The tasks being to keep making changes 'the system'. No one really understood what the changes were for, only that they had to be made. And re-made tomorrow. Because that was the work the system demanded.

Anthropic claiming 1000 PRs a day, and this article suggesting 100k loc a month. Are we going to stop calling it software, maybe liquidware is more apt? I don't mean that in a negative sense, but software is relative to hardware. And this new ...ware seems relative to software.