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slopinthebagyesterday at 11:25 PM1 replyview on HN

I think it's a fallacy that if you make creating anything easier, more useful things will be created. In reality, you just end up with more useless things being created. Like with art, when it gets easier to create you don't end up with more good art. And with software - it's not like the quality of software has gone up as it's gotten easier to build, it's gotten much worse.

A related fallacy is that great things are easier to build when you can rapidly create stuff. That isn't really how great ideas are generated, it's not a slot machine where if you pull the lever 1000 times you generate a good idea and thus a successful piece of software can be made. This seems like a distinctly Silicon Valley, SFBA type mentality. Steve Jobs didn't invent the iPhone by creating 1000 different throwaway products to test the market. Etc etc.


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lelanthrantoday at 7:09 AM

> I think it's a fallacy that if you make creating anything easier, more useful things will be created. In reality, you just end up with more useless things being created.

Well, if you lower the competence bar required to do something, then more people of lower competence will do that thing.