Someone behind the software
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Products carry the perspective of their makers, not just features built by process.
The author argues that good software reflects the intuition, experience, and perspective of its creators, not just requirements or data. At Linear, intuition is valued over process, developed through experience and customer conversations. The author warns that recent software feels messy and additive, lacking a unified point of view. They attribute this to work organized around individuals or agents producing changes independently, diluting shared perspective. Making software is getting easier, which should give makers room to develop a perspective and follow it further, rather than hiding behind faceless data or factories.
What commenters are saying
Commenters broadly agree that a clear point of view makes software better, but note it is not always commercially successful (e.g., JIRA prints money despite being awful). Several point out that corporate org structures with no single product owner or competing fiefdoms produce Frankenstein-like results, while successful companies like Apple, Stripe, and Basecamp have strong individual vision. One thread discusses Fred Brooks' citation of Dorothy Sayers on creation as three stages (idea, implementation, interaction), with interaction completing the act. A practical criticism: intuition cannot be weighed across 50 people in larger organizations.