Two Minutes on Tech | Issue #78
Your software roadmap looks like a plan. But whose priorities does it actually reflect?
A vendor delays a feature. Your engineers build a workaround. An idea gets postponed because the existing architecture makes it too difficult to deliver.
Each decision makes sense on its own. Together, they can change what your product becomes.
Dependency Isn’t the Problem. Unexamined Dependency Is.
Most businesses rely on software they don’t control. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Third-party platforms save time, reduce costs, and solve problems you don’t need to reinvent.
But every dependency comes with a trade-off. You gain convenience in exchange for some control over what happens next.
The trouble starts when those trade-offs become invisible. Product decisions begin to follow vendor limitations. Workarounds become permanent. Ideas get abandoned before they’re properly explored.
Nobody decides to make the product less ambitious. It happens through a series of perfectly reasonable decisions.
Watch the video: Is Your Software Roadmap Really Yours?
If your most important vendor changed its priorities tomorrow, how much of your roadmap would have to change with them?
The answer isn’t to build everything from scratch. It’s to know which parts of your software need to be yours, which can rely on external platforms, and which existing systems need a better foundation.
Sometimes that means custom software built around your business, rather than forcing your workflows into someone else’s solution. Other times, it means modernizing a legacy system in stages, preserving what works while removing the constraints holding it back.
At Art+Logic, we help businesses build custom software and modernize legacy systems to meet their evolving needs.
Your technology should make the next move possible, not decide which moves are available.
Talk to Art+Logic about your software roadmap →
What’s New in Tech
- Microsoft unveiled its Maia 300 AI accelerator, joining Google, Amazon and other tech giants in developing custom chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia and improve efficiency.
- OpenAI and Anthropic face questions over independent AI reviews. The companies are negotiating how much influence they should have over external evaluators’ published findings. The debate highlights a tension between protecting trade secrets and making AI safety assessments transparent.
- French cloud provider Scaleway plans to build an AMD-powered AI supercomputer in Sweden. The facility will offer startups and businesses another option for accessing large-scale AI computing without relying exclusively on Nvidia’s hardware ecosystem.
- What if a product considered a failure was actually ahead of its time? The latest episode of Software Engineering Daily revisits the company Steve Jobs built after leaving Apple. They explore how NeXT’s technology eventually became foundational to macOS and the iPhone.
Is your software roadmap being shaped by limitations you didn’t choose?