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Nothing else involves as much invention. We know intimately everything that goes into buildings & have built very similar buildings that serve very similar used millions of times. Each software has unique intent & is hugely hand crafted.

You cannot overbuild for software. You can over scale. But we don't have plumbing, electricity, foot, space, structural capacities as numerical behavioral properties that we can overshoot.

Both are complex but code is arbitrarily complex. The ways things can go wrong is unbounded.

parent rektide 3 years ago

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