> If you bill $1 for changing the bolt, and $9,999 for knowing which bolt to replace, this shows that the work is easy, but the experience required to make the work easy is not easy. If the master can draw it in seven strokes, but you don't see the seventy thousand strokes they did before, it looks easy, and in fact it is easy, for the master but not for the novice.
If it takes years to be able to do it well, it's not easy.
> So we keep using it, and even keep piling more on. It takes considerable effort to step back from all this, take a collective mulligan, and start over with a principle of taking things away to make things better, rather than adding more hacks to hide existing hacks.
True, but it can be done. The community moved away from Bower, for instance.
Watch the master attack an intermediate problem. They "make it look easy" because it is easy for them because they have been doing it for so many years they have forgotten that it was ever not easy. This is the real curse of knowledge.
> Bower
Yes, finally! In another 40 years most of the trash we're creating now will also be gone, probably replaced by more unless we find some discipline.
If it takes years to be able to do it well, it's not easy.
> So we keep using it, and even keep piling more on. It takes considerable effort to step back from all this, take a collective mulligan, and start over with a principle of taking things away to make things better, rather than adding more hacks to hide existing hacks.
True, but it can be done. The community moved away from Bower, for instance.