Just close your eyes and imagine how much creativity and productivity could be unleashed if basic CAD was as accessible as a document editor.
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Been thinking about that as analogous to
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I keep thinking about this too. For every 20 teams working on better programming tools I know of 0.2 trying to make life better for other engineers.
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I used to think this was bottlenecked by the difficulty of mastering 3D programming, perhaps.
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I now think that two cultural factors are likely just as big an issue: vendor lock-in taking air out of the room for innovation and the assumption that all engineers can improve their own tools, so “other engineering” gets little love from the software world. Maybe.
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Think that’s right. There’s also the “priesthood” aspect of engineers wanting new engineers to go through the same learning curve/hazing ritual, so resisting improvements in tools or process.
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(@saikofish invented and put together Streetmix [https://streetmix.net/ ], which is my favourite example in that category.)
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