Not sure if you read the article by Nick, but if I understand both of you correctly it is what he did? Or very similar :D

I love this place. I feel so lucky to have a fully #remotework and can go for a walk to visit the castle and other amazing places nearby. No $$$ can make up for this.

Photo by Roman Szymański, our local photographer.

Yet, once you start looking around you, as a user of various systems or the person affected by them, as a patient, parent, client... you can't help noticing how much we need more of it.
Not amazing, paradigm-shifting, ground-breaking innovation.
Just tiny improvements that save tons of busywork.

I think we tend to underestimate the impact of such "little improvements", because it's not intuitive that something so simple can have such an outsized impact.
We like to have a good challenge, solve interesting problems, and those... are just BORING.

One of the more impactful features I implemented a while ago was matching the order of printed documents with address labels.
Programming effort + QA and deployment - 2-3 hrs.
The manual effort saved - a few person-hours per week, or over half a month of a full-time salaried position per year.

Hm... is that a thing? Interesting, because for our family it seems to be an accurate slogan, but I didn't know there's some trend around it :P

I think it'd be super interesting if you did another session like this pairing with @tudorgirba.com to compare this session with how it would work out with GT and their visualizations.
On the surface it looks quite similar, but my guess would be that there may be interesting differences in details.

The only way is to wait it out until the bubble inevitably crashes... It can't go on for too long if using AI for a couple code reviews costs +$40 ;)

OK, I learned a new phrase today. Thanks!

I'm similar, it's very satisfying when you see how things improve and in the most messy codebases usually you have a lot of quick wins that immediately make a difference.
But... that always makes me think of this lady www.instagram.com/reel/C84pfeX...

I think my data-binding library for creating Excel spreadsheets is almost ready for a 1.0

github.com/SimonCropp/E...

Already using it in anger at work.
Spreadsheet code that would have taken a few hours to build now takes a few minutes.

"in anger" ???

There are many more interesting stories and insights in this interview youtu.be/P1EKQidRooc?.... It's rather long but really worth the watch, interesting and I like that it ends with some hope :D It's sometimes really hard to not feel depressed about how the tech is making everything worse...

Haha I see what you're doing! Now I have to come :P
IMO it'd be an interesting exercise, a bit similar to code retreat.
I thought of some examples from my commercial projects that would be interesting I think.
Maybe it would be good to test it first on Virtual DDD group???

"Organic code" is a phrase a friend used recently and I loved it. That was used by his co-workers as a joke as he's AI-resistant, but to me it's just plain beautiful, it captures the sentiment perfectly too :D

Is it hard or just impossible? I think this is often the first time that people see so many challenges that they're open to even considering doing something differently. If not, then would they need a thorough "modernization"?

Yes, I joined after seeing LI post. It was really interesting, but I feel like there should be a series of follow ups :) We just scratched the surface ;)