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To me the big question is how we're going to scale up complexity. The million-line programs we have today are already an absurdity. What are we going to do, hav
by gruseom 15y ago
To me the big question is how we're going to scale up complexity. The million-line programs we have today are already an absurdity. What are we going to do, have billion-line programs? Anyone who can figure out to provide equal value with 100x less code (edit: that grows, say, logarithmically in size rather than superlinearly) is going to have an edge. Brute force won't work forever. Plus it gets extremely expensive as one approaches the limits.
- vannevar 15y agoWhich brings us back full circle to the Mythical Man Month. While I've argued here for a crossover point where more programmers = more productivity, I acknowledge that there is a similar crossover point going the other way, where more programmers = less productivity. Finding the sweet spot in-between is the art of organization, and not yet a science.