TL;DR: The real problem to solve is the time to iterate. I think it's a straw man argument. An unfair comparison. Buildings & bridges etc have been designed an

TL;DR: The real problem to solve is the time to iterate. I think it's a straw man argument. An unfair comparison. Buildings & bridges etc have been designed and improved for literally thousands of years. Software is a half a century old. Aza Raskin's blog piece about human powered flight which bubbled up on HN has always stuck with me[0]. "The problem is we don't understand the problem". [0]: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem/ http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem/