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Sure, but that inertia carries you over the myriad alignment traps strewn like potholes over the face of your production–possibility frontier.
by gavmor 3y ago
Sure, but that inertia carries you over the myriad alignment traps strewn like potholes over the face of your production–possibility frontier.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoIf anything that's overstating the prospects of the median person in software engineering. Probably even the 99th percentile HN user couldn't do anything lasting and noteworthy if they somehow were blocked from relying on inertia, sheer dumb luck, obscure chains of fortuitous happenstance, etc... e.g. probably no one reading this can even hold the full Bluetooth spec in their head and understand all the tricks and pitfalls and obscure corner cases. Let alone do any useful work based on that. For the vast vast majority, progress happens in the form of millions of monkeys bashing typewriters in the hopes of getting a gem.