That paper makes such a huge, and largely incorrect assumption in the abstract. I've never seen anyone make this argument. The old parable about bugs, that it'

That paper makes such a huge, and largely incorrect assumption in the abstract. I've never seen anyone make this argument. The old parable about bugs, that it's 10x harder to fix a bug than it is to write the bug, shows us that the time to implement something complex is not related to it's complexity. For example, if I wanted to build something that randomly selects a function from github, and then runs that code on your laptop - I bet I could estimate and implement that code.. but good luck every defining it's features, complexity, etc in any mathematical way. But you don't need to define things that way to have reasonable estimates, for the same reason that when you build a shed in your yard, you don't need to understand all the physics of how it's held up.