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Very interesting conversation, the only thing that I wasn't expecting is the Egyptian pyramid analogy. Maybe I misunderstood something, but I think that Egyptian pyramid has a great structural integrity ? "Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves."

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i think his point isnt so much about structural integrity as it is with volume and required effort to get that structrual integrity

a pyriamid is a huge srtucture with tiny tiny passages that are of use to almost no one, which took massive amounts of work and time to accomplish

whereas a cathedral constructed mostly of arches made of less than 100th or a 1000th of the material could scale to the size of a pyramid yet internally be mostly air

taken further, a geodisic dome could scale even further and easily encolse both, with even less materials

so what he is saying is, architecture matters in relation to effort, scalability and also structural integrity

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