I would say that everything the author describes as facts that have led us to this &quot;mess&quot; are actual testments to how fucking amazing human ingenuity is.<p>Look at everything we built out of arbitrary conventions of boolean logic that has real impact and is shapping the modern world!<p>&gt;&gt;<i>The computer shifted the complexity of our solutions from the world of atoms to the world of ideas.</i><p>And that&#x27;s fucking awesome! Thanks everyone that was part in making that a reality!<p>Complexity can pile up in this new world, sure, but we are only starting to get our feet wet. Outside the boundaries of processing and storage, we are our only limitation. We can create things as complex as we can logically describe them.<p>It&#x27;s also incredibly difficult to create something that will acomodate everyone else&#x27;s solutions.<p>Software development is in its infancy. The fact that we can create absurd structures that still work is great because we can use them even if our skills are not mature enough to make truly elegant structures.<p>Saying programming sucks and wishfull thinking does not help anyone. Not happy? Start hacking on the next thing!