When I learnt programming as a hobby, before I went to college, before my jobs, I was hoping the future is that we build highly specialized, and customizable t

When I learnt programming as a hobby, before I went to college, before my jobs, I was hoping the future is that we build highly specialized, and customizable tools through open source code, not too small that they are just another programming language, and not too large that they cannot be connected to each other to create more values. And I was hoping we'd stop joining big companies, and instead open up local consulting firms to help people configure existing open source components for their specific needs. And the work (the configurations) should be done once per project and never reused.