Developers rediscover the joy of small, sharp tools
The pendulum swings back from sprawling platforms.
A small group of practitioners has been arguing for this approach for years. They are doing their best not to look smug.
The institutional response has been measured, which in this context is a polite way of saying slow.
The numbers tell part of the story. The rest lives in the texture of how people are actually behaving when no one is watching.
Observers describe a mood of cautious optimism, the kind that travels in private conversations long before it appears in any press release.
Whatever happens next, the baseline has moved. The old assumptions no longer describe the room they were built to describe.
Skeptics point to the long history of premature declarations. Their caution is earned, and worth keeping close at hand.
