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> Software development is not interesting

Interesting premise, lets see where he goes!

> I don't understand what is intellectually interesting about it.

Oh.

What is intellectually interesting about just copying and pasting code from a library? I think we can all agree that it is significantly (orders of magnitude) less interesting than solving abstract math problems.

obligatory: https://xkcd.com/793/

You laugh, but (and I don't remember who's the original author of this quote) "I'd die for the simplicity that is on the other side of complexity"

What has led you to the conclusion that everyone would agree with that ? I certainly do not agree.

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