Building software has become trivial. The moat has moved. Creative software companies that don't figure out where it went are going to find themselves outflanked by every enterprise that decides to just build their own.
Subhash Jha
Software Developer at Adobe building Photoshop. Writing about macOS tools, systems programming, and creative software.
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