We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower

Someone made a video clip showing the Crumbl Cookies ingredients list and each one has around 100 ingredients

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1940924371255939236

Our software is like that. A small system will have a crazy number of packages and dependencies. It's not healthy and it's expensive and it's stupid.

Culture tends to drive drunk, swinging wide to extremes and then over-correcting. We're already fully in the wrong lane when we start to have discussions about thinking about the possibility of change.

Everything in the physical world is the same. There are hundreds of pieces even in the smallest toaster, and no one in the world knows how to make half of one without all those external dependencies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODzO7Lz_pw

It's not a software thing, it's just how humanity works.