Gas Town
I've just read the absolute fever dream that is Steve Yegge's Gas Town.
The irony here is that a Gas Town built on even slightly more rigorous "manual" foundations would probably be a game-changer in certain enormo-tech enterprises.
One of the things I like about this exercise, however, is that it cheerfully acknowledges the hyperinflationary nature of burning cash to build software at exorbitant speeds to accomplish…what, exactly? And why? And other questions enormo-tech enterprises can only answer in terms of more hyperinflationary cash-burning exercises for no particular determinate purpose. You print money to burn it to print money to burn it.
Oddly, the foundational questions of the industry I'm in remain unanswered: what is software for? What is software built at the speed of light for? What is software built haphazardly at the speed of light by other software for?