...machine learning is hard... Hard is relative. I remember Seth's post and pretty much agreed with all of it. Nothing in it struck me as particularly diffic

...machine learning is hard... Hard is relative. I remember Seth's post and pretty much agreed with all of it. Nothing in it struck me as particularly difficult or unusual. We routinely do these things all the time: - provide options in most likely order - default to the most likely option - auto-complete based on indexed options - auto updating software - auto maintaining databases Users don't necessarily want more "features". They just want their software to work the way they do. The developer's job is to find that out and make it work, no matter "hard" it is to do.