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"when user expertise level is medium to high, and task complexity is low to medium" – this reminds me of Python itself. Python isn't the best at anything, it's
by ianbicking 2y ago
"when user expertise level is medium to high, and task complexity is low to medium" – this reminds me of Python itself. Python isn't the best at anything, it's slow, sometimes vague in its formalisms, etc. But it keeps being super popular because most work is low to medium complexity. In everyone's work, from a simple webdev to an AI researcher, there are moments of complexity in the work but most of the work is getting through the relatively simple stuff.
Or maybe in general we can say that to do something really hard and complex you must and should put a lot of effort into getting all the not-hard not-complex pieces in place, making yourself comfortable with them so they don't distract, and setting the stage for that hard part. And when you look back you'll find it odd how the hard part wasn't where you spent most of the time, and yet that's how we actually do hard stuff. Like we have to spend time knolling our code to be ready for the creative part.