Jason Gorman
Can anyone put their finger on when exactly the software industry stopped being about solving problems?
Mar 13 at 9:08pmWeb
Show threadChris WenhamMar 13
@jasongorman Around the time "Agile" became a job title with books, training courses, seminars and n-level flowcharts.
Show threadMarcin KrzyzanowskiMar 13
@jasongorman November 2025
Show threadNat PryceMar 13
@jasongorman I think it was when Babbage stopped working to complete his Difference Engine to noodle about designing his Analytical Engine.
Show threadJason GormanMar 13
@natpryce It was when he realised he could rent it out instead of letting customers buy it...
Show threadMatti JärvinenMar 13

@jasongorman when tech bros started ruling wealth.

I mean look at the Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple & Meta these days. Fighting to keep up walled gardens, stifling competition via generic patents, enshittifying everything they do. And if nothing else then promoting harmful busines models that leech the actual software vendors or straight out prevent using open source.

It happened started when the marketing & legal became the boss of software.

Show threadAdam CollinsMar 13

@jasongorman For me it was 2015-ish:

* Amazon's profit-less dominance
* Uber Eats launched, Kalanik in every tech conversation
* Startup acquisitions ramp up
* VCs decide growth at all cost is good and profit is bad
* War for talent pushes tech comps higher
* Boot camps now better than formal education?
* Stackoverflow is good enough

IMO, at this point, the number of people coming into the industry for easy $$ eclipsed the number of people joining to learn and build really good shit

Show threadkirchMar 14
@jasongorman 2006, when everyone decided Facebook should eat the world, for it's 10th anniversary it did.
Show threadMuss das sein.Mar 14
@jasongorman capitalism does not solve problems, well, untrue. It solved one problem pretty good. How to accumulate wealth.
Show threadnils_bergerMar 14
@jasongorman was the industry ever about solving problems? I thought industries are about sales.
Wasn't it always just some tech savvy people who cared about solving problems?
For the significant part at least.