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Re:Cognitive Biases in Software Development by Nevermark on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:43PM (#22745424)
I have noticed that adept software developer's can be more patient with tools that require fiddling, especially if the fiddling feels like challenging but rewarding puzzle solving in a sea of powerful options.

Unproductivity that feels viscerally very productive.

Alternatively, command line tools tend to be created and increase the productivity of the more technically inclined, but are opaque to the less technical.

Which effect is the GibbonsRCool's Law? Or both? GibbonsRCool's Laws of Skill Drag and Acceleration?

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