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It's very hard to provide any interesting answer to that. I know programmers like to be all egalitarian and stuff, but... What if we ignored all the road worke
by jerf 5y ago
It's very hard to provide any interesting answer to that. I know programmers like to be all egalitarian and stuff, but...
What if we ignored all the road workers and asked non-construction people who kinda know how to build some stuff in their house to design & build a highway instead?
What if ignored all the architects and asked a non-architect who has put up a couple of sheds from scratch to build the next skyscraper?
What if we ignored all the doctors and asked a random person who knows some biology to treat cancer?
I think this may make it more obvious how this would go.
You may, very rarely, get some sort of interesting insight out of such things. I won't claim the probability is a flat mathematical zero. But it's not a very rich vein of insights. There's much richer veins available.
- ballenf 5y agoDoing a professional's job or a tradesman's job is different from designing the tools they use to do these jobs. So it would be asking a non-carpenter to design whatever tool they need to get nails to go into wood. You'd probably end up with some caveman looking rock strapped to a stick and then it would evolve into something very similar to a hammer. The claw on the back to remove nails may or may not be combined with the hammer.