If this were physical software, I'd expect more of it to be on fire.

No, software is far more modular and rides on the top of a whale.

I was just going to write it, then I saw that you did already. Nice one :)

Only if the software in question had an AS detailed plan as these guys had before they started building it, maybe..

Or maybe the ship "plans" are like a binary, and the "design" of the ship is more like source code and specs.