This survey <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/10/sourcegraph-devs-are-managing-100x-more-code-now-than-they-did-in-2010/> reports on the explosion in typical source code bases that seems to have occurred over the past decade. I have a couple of concerns with this: * The obvious quantity-versus-quality issue. How much of this is due to things like node.js pulling in hundreds of dependencies for a comparatively small class library? Clearly, “managing” does not mean “writing” or even “maintaining”. * The use of “technology” as some kind of synonym for “information technology”. You mean it didn’t require “technology” to conduct insurance, retail, food and beverage businesses before? After all, pencil and paper are “technologies”, too. And if you think they are easy things to make, well ... try making them yourself. </rant>