A few days ago, I wrote about dividing software into two types: algorithmic and arbitrary. Algorithmic software does things that are elegant and logical. Arbitrary software does things based on business rules which were never meant to be algorithmic, or things like data mapping.
There will always be a market for people to write arbitrary [...]
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