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> If something actually works, it means it wasn't that hard to begin with. This one affects a huge proportion of modern software developers too, and has two cl
by fidotron 3y ago
> If something actually works, it means it wasn't that hard to begin with.
This one affects a huge proportion of modern software developers too, and has two close relatives where we wildly over reward those that fix things heroically at 3am while under appreciating those that prevented it breaking at all, or my favourite "what I do is hard, important and valuable, what you do is trivial, so why don't you just give it away?"
Making things that appear to work first time has been one of the defining repeated errors of my career.
- milesvp 3y agofeynman wrote about this. He famously, already having figured out the first 2 digits of a locked filing cabinet over the course of months, sat down and read a magazine for a length if time before “cracking” the lock when someone lost the key. Said he learned from a locksmith that people hate it when he makes it look easy. For some reason people value effort over expertise.