alt Hacker NewsIt took me a few seconds of deliberating if The Homer was a reference to baseball or "The Odyssey" and then realized there was a footnote
> software production has become a mass-produced commodity in every sense - it's much more expensive to produce software manually, but the quality is not the same.
Agreed.
I believe “The Homer” is a reference to Season 2, Episode 15 of The Simpsons, “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Homer reunites with his long lost brother, who runs car company Powell Motors. Homer is ultimately tasked by his brother with helping to design a car for the “average man” that ultimately bankrupts the company for being wildly overengineered and costing too much ($82,000 in 1991-money).
Here’s the car: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer