"product is the knowledge in the code, not the code itself".. and other interesting observations. That might be relevant in current to-AI-or-not-AI questions
Published as book - The Laws of Software Process: A New Model for the Production and Management of Software , 2003, Phillip G. Armour
https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Software-Process-Production-Mana...
Incredibly prescient given what’s happening now 25 years later. This message resonates with me quite strongly! Thanks for sharing.
Essentially the idea of a context window in modern LLM models, there is implicit domain knowledge to every task in which no matter how capable the model may be, if not in the context, the software will not be functional.