None of this is new. Developers have always been given ambiguous requirements, and questions about them have always been furiously rejected. Then they guess what was meant, or should have been meant, and that is what is deployed.
The purpose of what he describes is to preserve the structure of denial around the implications of possessing, and the consequences of using, any or all technology. Politics as found -- war, law, class, etiquette -- depends entirely upon that structure of denial.
He's onto something. It's not that simple. Cost is a factor, and more importantly, the effort to conceal that cost is a factor, and the effort to conceal where the money goes (and sometimes where it comes from), are factors.
The software never had difficulty-value. What was difficult, and what had to be amortized in order to make it acceptable, was the professional-services investment required to make the software locally useful.
AI appears to promise a resurgence of homebrew. But will the auditors like it any better than they liked old-school homebrew?
Modi's only concern is party patronage. He is against anything that would introduce any factor other than BJP/RSS affiliation into hiring decisions. Any such statement from him must be interpreted in that light.
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