alt Hacker News1. When you have meaningful software that can build itself (and I'm not talking about the compilation process), let me know.
2. You can estimate the duration of each step of a process, regardless of how much human involvement is required.
1. When you have meaningful software that can build itself (and I'm not talking about the compilation process), let me know.
2. You can estimate the duration of each step of a process, regardless of how much human involvement is required.
You should be talking about the compilation process, because that's the thing that puts the cost of non-novel software at near zero, and you can't recompile a bridge for free.
Estimating the duration of each step of a process only works when you know what the steps are.