Absolutely, at this rate most software would be complete in a few hours. I may lack imagination but wtf are you changing? Endlessly refactoring? That’s spinning your wheels renamed as productivity.
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> Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today. By automating the loops of discovery, the world will be able to make much more rapid advances across countless fields of science.
The problem is that for this to actually become true, compute needs to become commodity again, otherwise this capability will select for people and environments with oversized pockets.
There may be an element here where announcing new hardware at a 30% higher price would largely make the latter the focus point, so instead they chose to take the hit of the price hikes separately.
The argument that seems to hit home more often than not is that optionals effectively “fork” the state space, the possible states your program can be in. And the larger the state space is, the harder it is to reason about the code and maintain it. That’s actually part of what make undesirable states un-representable means.
This actually also explains why I couldn’t change my default card the other day - I must have been in that screen that opens from the button shortcut.