Software has never been about writing code.

It has always been about giving people more hands, more mind, more reach.

Watch what people actually do. How their days unfold. Where they stop. What they repeat. What they work around. Where the hassles are. What they’ve simply learned to tolerate. Where the emotion is.

Notice when something becomes easier.

Relief. Satisfaction. Delight.

Study awe.

Find where fun and utility become hard to separate.

Then decide what matters. What doesn’t. What belongs. What gets in the way. How people get to it. How it gets to them. What needs to be obvious. What needs to be close at hand. What can stay out of the way until it’s needed.

That was always the work.

Code was in service of it.

Now you can spend more of your time working on the whole thing at once.