no living being will be able to make heads or tails out of the code we run.

Which is fine, because somebody will just vibe code a replacement when it gets too unwieldy and then we’ll start the cycle of unmaintainability all over again. Welcome to the era of disposable, limited-use software.

While you’re all working on dealing with that, don’t mind me, I’m just going to be over here admiring all this artisanal, hand-crafted software running in a carefully arranged and manually curated legacy virtual machine with loving attention to detail and thoughtful Feng Shui, where it will be safe and protected from the horrors of the open internet until someday NetWatch finally fires up the blackwall to protect us.