Reminds me of this article by Dan Luu: https://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/ https://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/ > A line I often hear from programmers is that pro

Reminds me of this article by Dan Luu: https://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/ https://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/ > A line I often hear from programmers is that programming is like "having to build a plane while it's flying", implicitly making the case that programming is harder than designing and building a plane since people who design and build planes can do so before the plane is flying1. But, of course, someone who designs airplanes could just as easily say "gosh, my job would be very easy if I could build planes with 4 9s of uptime and my plane were allowed to crash and kill all of the passengers for 1 minute every week". We tend to think that some problems are only as complex as our understanding of them.