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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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What's the Scale of Improvement?

I think the other thing that's never explicitly stated exactly in this paper, but that I always had a tension with, is what's the scale of improvement we're talking about? Not in terms of the magnitude of the improvement, but at what scale is the improvement happening? So it can't be like, yeah, if you fed me ice cream every hour on the hour, I would be 10 X more productive, right? Like that doesn't count as like an improvement here, right? Because that's like a personal sort of thing. Yeah, it's got to be kind of this generalized thing that at least could be applied,. Even if it wasn't applied equally, it could be

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