A clear example of why enterprise software needs a full rewrite

That will matter as Wall Street begins demanding concrete data on AI-driven enhancements over the next 18 months

Many appear to be using generous token budgets to complete tasks faster rather than producing more work in the same hours. This may change, but people generally aren’t motivated to take on extra work when

The winner from all this AI token spending isn’t: more revenue growth less OpEx It’s: leisure time — leaving earlier, working on side projects, playing video games, etc

A truly multiplayer development experience would capture the "why" layer, not just execute the "what" faster This is 8090’s Software Factory: a multiplayer, AI-enabled approach to making

Too many architectural choices live in chat threads, ticket comments, or someone’s head, letting individuals speed up while the team’s collective knowledge fails to compound and overall progress stays

The missing layer in successful software development is often not writing code faster but documenting the reasoning and shared context behind decisions so everyone (including agents) can follow along

Requirements captures business intent before an engineer opens an IDE Blueprints records architecture decisions upstream Work Orders routes structured tasks to AI agents through MCP with full context The

the real value comes from coordination between roles, traceable decisions, and the institutional memory explaining why things were built a certain way that is the role of a software factory — a multiplayer

software is mostly architecture choices, requirements debates, compliance checks, code reviews, rollbacks, post-mortems, onboarding. it's a multiplayer sport with many roles and thousands of decisions

but software development isn't single-player

every AI coding tool on the market feels like a single-player game cursor, copilot, claude code all make individual developers faster — and they're excellent at it. 2–5x solo velocity, sometimes more

If this were truly a tax only on billionaires, it could have been three pages; instead it uses 34 to enable broader takeovers

allow the tax board to subpoena financial records from all financial institutions for audits The proposal runs 34 pages of legal language that describe mechanisms for seizing assets

permit the tax board to appraise and confirm asset values face a penalty of up to 40% of the tax bill if the board deems reported values too low

How the tax would work: voters would be asked to approve a measure requiring them to: list all assets and their values, then submit those to the California Franchise Tax Board

On page 26, the measure explains how the government can convert it into an Everyone Tax without voter approval It also allows converting the levy into a yearly tax instead of a one-time charge, again without

Despite the name, it would apply to any California resident who currently has assets or will have assets in the future The creators used the "billionaire" label to provoke outrage so few would

The Billionaire Tax is actually an Everyone Tax The proposal was drafted by four professors who reject the American dream; some authors are not U.S. citizens

The language also permits making the assessment an annual tax rather than a one-time charge—again without voter approval. If the plan truly targeted only billionaires, that wording appears inconsistent.