Signal Decay

Second hallucination.

The death of pre-packaged software.
The paradigm of the “package” — whether commercial or open source — is becoming obsolete.

Scenario A: Commercial software.
A burden of over-dimensioning. Companies pay for unused features, systemic bugs, and forced updates that cause trauma and retraining costs. It’s a tax on useless complexity.

Scenario B: Open source.
A maintenance trap. Code monoliths built for specific needs, dependency on others’ priorities, and security updates that break operational continuity. It’s managing someone else’s complexity.

Both models are inefficient.
Software is no longer a mass product, but a producible capability.

With AI-assisted IDEs, a program is no longer something “written”. It’s something to evoke on-demand.

You build only what’s needed, exactly when needed, with the features that matter.
Software is becoming a flow, not an object.