I've had lots of similar thoughts but you've stated it better than I ever could.
I think often times we forget that our job is to make tools. Sometimes we need to go back and build new tools that more efficiently helps us do things. This isn't a failure, it means we got smarter. Unfortunately I think sunk cost fallacies and the status quo bias bite us pretty hard here and I don't have good answers because populations of people don't make much sense to me.
Wanted to say you're doing good things and I appreciate it from a random guy on the internet.
Thank you. I started on an Oric 1, 40 years ago. Since then creating software has become absurdly more complex, and not because it needs to be. The question remains then; Why …?
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I've had lots of similar thoughts but you've stated it better than I ever could.
I think often times we forget that our job is to make tools. Sometimes we need to go back and build new tools that more efficiently helps us do things. This isn't a failure, it means we got smarter. Unfortunately I think sunk cost fallacies and the status quo bias bite us pretty hard here and I don't have good answers because populations of people don't make much sense to me.
Wanted to say you're doing good things and I appreciate it from a random guy on the internet.
Thank you. I started on an Oric 1, 40 years ago. Since then creating software has become absurdly more complex, and not because it needs to be. The question remains then; Why …?