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An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution

Posted by Soulskill on from the in-addition-to-exploiting-the-workers dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Tech company Code Valley makes the bold claim that a software industrial revolution may be imminent (PDF). They propose shifting developers from the coding domain (current software development practice) to a "design-domain," where the emphasis is no longer on writing code, but on decentralized design – code becomes simply a by-product of this collaboration. In this design-domain, software programs are designed (and built) by a peer-to-peer supply chain of software vendors, each owned and managed by a software engineer. They envisage a global supply-chain of these software experts capable of reliably delivering immensely complex software.

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  1. If we just use some buzzwords by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Funny

    The code will just write itself!

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    1. Re:If we just use some buzzwords by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

      I hear that if you say "peer-to-peer design-domain decentralized design" into a mirror three times, an actual coder will appear and write all your software.

      No, the 'actual coder' will come up behind you with a baseball bat and rearrange your cranium.

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  2. Re:More and more abstraction by plopez · · Score: 5, Funny

    Magical Elves!

    It's a whole new paradigm! A new Economy! There's no downside! Etc. etc.

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  3. Email them by plopez · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let them know what you *really* think.

    team@codevalley.com

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  4. Re:More and more abstraction by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who is actually making the software

    The coding is not done by programmers, but by peers. It says so right in the summary. Duh.

  5. non sequitur for today is: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it works for aviation, it certainly might work for business software.

  6. Re:hmm... by willworkforbeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    my bullshit meter just exploded

    Great. More industrial hardware issues. What code was it running, and have you considered decentralizing the peer-to-peer supply chain of software vendors to build a distributed fix?

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  7. Re:More and more abstraction by GuB-42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Better give these peers some work to do, right now, resetting connections is the only thing they seem to do.