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The Bitter Lesson for Software | Fulcrum

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Software is made of information flows

Software is made of information flows Software encodes information flows. An ERP system, for instance, takes procurement and locks it into a specific sequence of purchase orders, approval routing, invoice matching, and payment release. Git takes multiple people changing code and imposes a protocol of branching, diffing, reviewing, and merging. By codifying these information flows, software says how things should happen; it makes patterns repeatable and enforceable by expressing them in deterministic code. Software took over the world because we learned to express useful actions into informatio

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