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>> software development has gotten infinitely easier

Software development hasn't even gotten a magnitude easier, let alone infinitely. Every improvement has addressed accidental aspects not the essence.

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by sheer accessibility of computers, programming has gotten easier. Computers used to be these behemoths, now, the usb-c to hdmi adapter I have lying around can do more FLOPS than the computer that took us to the Moon. Maybe not infinitely, but it's sure gotten easier and more accessible.

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