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Almost no skill required to cook a steak

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  1. lizardking · · focus · HN ↗
    Cooking a genuinely good steak also requires almost no skill. I can give you a chicken scratch note with 3 bullet points and it will come out nearly perfectly.
    1. aorloff · · focus · HN ↗
      I was going to say the same thing. 2.5m per side+rotation plus another 2.5 plus or minus 20s depending on heat

      But I actually got something out of this -- which is that maybe before now, humans had to soak up the complexity of where value was made in software. And you saw this in the highest and best paid engineers in science and platform teams and basically that you had to invest in brains where you thought the value in your product was.

      Without humans managing complexity, you have no idea where you should be investing once the product grows out of the concept stage

    2. nunez · · focus · HN ↗
      Slight disagree, as many will heat their pan too high and burn the steak before it cooks through. Or maybe that was just me when I first learned how to cook steak the right way. ("Medium"/"medium-high" doesn't necessarily correlate to the position of the knob on the burner or whether the pan feels medium/medium-high)
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