Dev of Private Software Like Cooking Art; Agent Trend to Redefine Perception
pixlpa · x · 2026-08-24
The author compares building small, private software to cooking dinner—an artistic process rather than a design project. Software must compromise its ideal form once it scales to solve problems beyond one person. The author suggests that the rise of agentic coding will help the public better appreciate the distinction between public and private software, and the complexity gap between building a product versus solving a personal problem.
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