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  In my experience that’s only been the case for functionally non-unique software. At my job we write software that’s effectively unique. There isn’t a pattern to fall back on. It makes a lot more mistakes very frequently, since the nature of it keeps trying to guide it to the known path. It’s great for debugging since the manner that some check failed is chasing through known logic, and it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t see the existing code as probable or fitting a known pattern if the sh...

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  Oh, they totally will. It'll be another website boom. A lot of the big web presences will be damaged by the bust and hosting costs will fall through the floor. Less barrier to entry for making your little website and some portion of those will become problematicly large due to cheap cost driving bad design and we'll go through the third or fourth round of this. Or, for deepest irony, some of the most optimally located datacenters could be converted into steel mills and industrial...