2. The Thorny Problem gets better understood. People start cataloging exhaustive ways to solve it & tradeoffs of each.
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3. Familiarity with complex solution ecosystem & tradeoffs of different approaches starts to be thought of as "essential knowledge."
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4. Somebody automates one of the solutions in a way that eliminates some possibilities, but works well enough in most cases.
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5. Automated solution takes off; developers who use it don't have to know anything about the complex ecosystem that gave rise to it.
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6. Much Gnashing of Teeth at developers who don't have this "essential knowledge."
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7. The automated solution turns out to let developers focus on a different problem that they hadn't had brainspace for before.
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(Owing to brainsoace being occupied by complex ecosystem of solutions & tradeoffs, that automation obviated for most projects.)
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8. Semi-permanent factions form: folks who insist "essential knowledge" is still essential; & folks who don't find it useful anymore.
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100% true, but a nuance: some developers are working in the space where the knowledge is still important and see other devs in the ...
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same space using the new tool and introducing bad bugs for users. Old time developers act like this damns the entire new solution.
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Also, old time developers spend more and more time on the "bad performance" of the new soln as other excuses fade away.
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You can be pretty sure that if the old timers in an ecosystem are suddenly obsessed with perf and berating new tools, this is in play.
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