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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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What Is a Single Development?

The first line of his poll quote, there is no single development. So he will get into his examples later on, but it's a really weasily kind of framing device because it feels like what counts as a single development is, can you come up with a name for this thing? Does this thing have a name? For instance, one that he doesn't talk about, but like, waterfall, right? Waterfall is a as a software development methodology where it's like, you know, you're going to do your big design up front, and then you're doing the implementation after that. He does talk about getting rid of waterfall.

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