Paper Engineering is about where software is heading — how it gets built, bought, and run as the ground keeps shifting.
Software engineering and the business of software are changing at the same time. Agents are reopening old build-versus-buy questions, the shape of a software company is being redrawn, and the assumptions that held for the last twenty years no longer all hold. These essays try to make sense of that — what's changing, what it means for the people who build and buy software, and what's worth building next.
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