The most common reason once-great companies and projects go sideways is not technological or business disruption, it's that they eventually stop cari… - Guillermo Rauch

• writing style → prompt
• coding style → prompt
• color system → prompt
• design system → prompt
• brand guidelines → prompt
• a11y requirements → prompt
• compliance & legal → prompt
• vendor preferences → prompt
• product requirements → prompt
• customer preferences → prompt
• institutional knowledge → prompt

On a long enough timeline, everything gets subsumed by the (system) prompt and integrations that populate it

2026 will mark the year when humanity achieved digital abundance. Any thought and desire instantly transmogrified into software. Apps, games, images, music, docs, sites, every one generated, by anyone.

When manual programming became obsolete around 2026, it represented almost exactly 183 years¹ of refinement by some of the best minds of our times. That is a really long run, but the runs are getting shorter.

¹ Since Ada Lovelace's "Note G"