“People fundamentally misunderstand software who build it. You think people like using it and they just don't. People tolerate software. You're just trying to make it less painful. … I actually hate most software. It's just some of it is less painful.”

point is that there is like S-tier, like all software sucks. Like you, the framing that I've been thinking about software in more these days is like, I think it was Jason Fried who says this. It's like people fundamentally misunderstand software who build it. You think people like using it and they just don't. People tolerate software. You're just trying to like make it less painful. It's like, that's so true. I actually hate most software. It's just some of it is less painful. And when I think about things at the very top of that list, it's like Google Sheets, Google.com, ChatGPT, clawed in a terminal, maybe VS Code, but even that's painful. You know, Sublime, maybe, I don't know. And that's it. Everything else is just pain, you know. Maybe Gmail, but no, that's painful too. So what