Make Great Software · Season 1 · Episode 1

Let's Get to Work

28 min

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Most software is bad. In our debut episode, we dig into the gap between software that fights you and software that feels like magic.

Software is everywhere. It's the layer between us and the world. Yet most software is bad.

Add one unnecessary second to something a million people do and you've cost the world eleven days of human life. It works the other way, too: shave a second off and you've handed eleven days back. Now that AI can build almost anything with a few prompts, the scarce skills are judgment, taste, and caring about the person on the other side of the screen.

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