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Lately, I attended an IT decision maker conference. A few hundred CIOs and other IT decision makers under a single roof. When looking at the conference schedule, you found the usual suspects:

In the The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, author Bill Watterson commented on some selected comic strips. Especially one comment made a lasting impression on me:

In the previous post, we summed up the misconceptions we discussed in this series and what they mean for the current discussion if AI solutions will replace software developers.

In the previous post we have discussed that software is invisible which deprives humans from an essential reasoning instrument. We have also looked at the malleability curse, the property of software that it can be bent and twisted in totally absurd and nonsensical ways while still working in some way.

In the previous post, we discussed the value preservation dilemma of software. We have seen that software – opposed to almost all physical goods – needs to be changed and adapted to the ever-changing needs and demands of its environment to preserve its value.