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0 pointskneebonian3y ago0 comments

> so fast that we get to reimplement the same thing, but 10x better every 5 years or so.

Citation needed. Seems that it just us getting more and more abstracted which can make it easier but not necessarily easier.

The hardest part for the next gen of developers is not having Moore's law to save them from crappy coding.

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rr8083y ago

Right, I worked on a async non-blocking project in C++ in the 90s. It was a lot simpler than any modern project, no cloud, no yaml, no containers, no fancy security. Sure it didn't have a pretty web interface but was great software.

userbinator3y ago

10x worse is how I'd put it. First example that comes to mind: Microsoft Teams.

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