Post #1355163
2026-04-12 12:00 UTC
@samir
> Our 2020s tech industry loves to automate the easy part and hand-wave away the part that matters
Which itself is pretty much just what Brooks warned about in No Silver Bullet back in the 80s.
We’re pouring hundreds of billions into something that in the absolute best case scenario (for boosters) would only address accidental complexity, and expecting somehow essential complexity will disappear too
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer 2026-04-12 12:06
@mpbarlow And in the average case, they make accidental complexity far worse!