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I don't have children, but if a thing's worth doing, it's generally worth doing poorly, even if ideally it would be done well.

I've created a thousand useful hacks that would make AI slop look like high art, that would not have been useful at all had they been polished to a high shine.

https://xkcd.com/1205/

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> if a thing's worth doing, it's generally worth doing poorly

I wouldn’t go that far, especially for activities that when done poorly pose significant risk to life or property.

At any rate, communicating with others isn’t quite the same thing as hacking up a mechanism for yourself. The key differentiator here is how much needless burden you’re putting on others’ time and energy.

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