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Explaining to business people why building software is still hard

66 points · 59 comments · fagnerbrack

  1. jmclnx · · focus · HN ↗
    My experience over many decades is this:

    * If a business person thinks a change or new program is very easy to do, it is really a very hard project.

    * If a business person thinks the change or new program us hard to do, usually it is a trivial project.

    For me, this has been true for well over 40 years. I never use any kind AI for my work, it did not exist before I retired.

    1. tristor · · focus · HN ↗
      My experience matches this also. My observation is that most business people think things they know they don't know are hard, and things that they think they do know are easy. My additional observation is that AI tools make business people think they know a lot more things, so they consider a lot more things easy, when they are not. AI tools are a machine that makes business people Dunning-Kruger-max.
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