TECHNICAL WRITING

Raise the Ceiling

January 18, 2026 ยท Oliver Gilan & The Mesa Team

Most of the software that will ever exist has not yet been written.
Software will run our power grids.
Settle our markets.
Pilot our aircraft.
Navigate our cities.
Fight our wars.
Heal our bodies.

And yet, software's ambition outpaces our ability to build it.
Failed projects. Cost overruns. Delayed timelines in the best case.
Brittle systems. Silent failures. Incidents that read like disaster novels in the worst case.

The world's answer so far?
Raise the floor.
More "no-code."
More vibe-coded tools.
More one-off automations and weekend bots.

These things are fun. They are not enough.
The real leverage is not helping one more person write throwaway software.
The real leverage is helping the most important institutions on earth operate with orders-of-magnitude more reliability, speed, and clarity.

Hospitals. Exchanges. Factories. Logistics networks.
Schools. Banks. Military.
The systems that must not go down.

That software is not written by casuals.
It is written by professionals staring down the full complexity of the real world.

They do not need vibes.
They need power.
They need precision.
They need leverage.
They need tools worthy of the problems they are solving.

Mesa exists for them.
For the engineers building the critical paths of civilization.
For the teams wrestling millions of lines of code into coherent systems.

To turn codebases from plaintext into living environments.
To give humans and silicon intelligence a shared workspace.
To make deep verification as natural as casual coding.
To make correctness, resilience, and evolution the default, not the exception.

This is the calling for everyone at Mesa:
Raise the ceiling.