the airline captain analogy
we used to develop software differently not too long ago, software development was a tight, manual craft. one developer, one tester. file-by-file. line-by-line. the scope of what a single person could build and own was small by necessity. then came git. then open source exploded. suddenly you were standing on the shoulders of giants — pulling in libraries, frameworks, entire ecosystems that someone else had already built and battle-tested. a single developer could now own significantly larger slices of a system. the blast radius of one person’s output kept growing. ...