As many as 1.8 trillion lines of code were written in the 20 years since the start of this millennium, according to a conservative estimate in an article written on Medium.com (1)
That’s 93 billion lines of code written per year, every year
How many lines were written to manage data within an application? Or apply business logic similar to organizations within the same industry: 20 billion? 30 billion?! Maybe more. Open source hasn’t been successful (2) sharing business logic and business objects across corporations, even in the same industry
Now, AI’s writing that code over and over again, and AI’s going to make this problem worse, before someone or something makes it better. It’s a difficult and complex problem to solve, and one that’ll take many steps (and missteps) to correct, but we believe it’s a problem totally worth solving
(1) https://medium.com/modern-stack/how-much-computer-code-has-been-written-c8c03100f459 written by Sage McEnery
(2) Hasn’t been successful in anything other than the Operating System and a variety of data processing middleware
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