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There's a broader message here, that scares the shit out of me, > The reason Tesla hasn't "worked all the bugs out yet" is that the company is run by people wh
by jauntywundrkind 3y ago
There's a broader message here, that scares the shit out of me,
> The reason Tesla hasn't "worked all the bugs out yet" is that the company is run by people who hold established best practice in ideological contempt, and is defined by a tech-industry culture that fetishizes innovation and regards product quality as a third-order concern. There simply isn't as much investment money and credulous tech-media adulation to suck up in the promise of iterating on what already works. You must reinvent, almost literally in this case, the wheel—this time, apparently on the premise of "...and what if it sucked?"
So much of capitalism is about convincing people things are hard, bad, wrong, & that your product/service and your product/service alone have it right.
The top post in "I'm skeptical of low code" works at a low-code shop, and was a perfect example of this, of blasting code & showing off a form builder & wowwing folks. But then the hard part really starting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38820160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38820160
My dream is for humanity to have a better relationship with technology. One where the tech shows itself off better, is more observable, so we can understand it's upsides and it's downsides more honestly, tweak it some. And from that better position, we can steer and adjust the way forward. Rather than just serve us, giving us the option to see in and learn what's afoot, empowering us; that's like the first steps on the path to Engelbart-ian Augmenting Intellect. And it's how we escape humanity being victims to this Phoenix cycle of capitalism constantly burning everything down to let vc's and founders attempt a new ascent.