> But, you forgo the (often hidden) benefits of past mistakes and standard techniques that have all the kinks ironed out. > The problem with houses is that ite

> But, you forgo the (often hidden) benefits of past mistakes and standard techniques that have all the kinks ironed out. > The problem with houses is that iteration is expensive. A lot of architectural innovations are actually a version 2. There's another building where the architect/builder learned from mistakes. I think it would be super interesting and useful if different disciplines could condense that process down into relatively readable technical histories, and make those a core part of their curriculum. I think that would be super useful in software engineering, given the frequency that people seem to reinvent the wheel, some areas seem to oscillate back and forth between the same few concepts, and the path dependence that's locked us into others.