Well it has certainly transformed bureaucratic operations. And I don't mean that in a bad way; superior bureaucracy and logistics was a key to the British Empire.

Software allows us to push computation (intelligence) into our environment.

Telecommunications did that, not really software. Twitter started out as an SMS compatible service remember.

I do think there's something there though: I've spent the last 2 days building an app I've always wanted to build for myself with my computer in the corner running Claude and Claude Remote. Prototypes land on my phone and I don't even look at it for more then a few minutes before doing something else.

It's software, actually useful software, which doesn't take 100s of hours to build.

So I didn't even really spend two days on it: I mostly didn't look at all. I'll spend more time setting the result up on my home server.