Re:Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development
by sangnoir on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:37AM
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Same goes for the Y2K problem: prodigious efforts went into solving the problem, which was mostly averted. But since "nothing happened", people started asking if the whole thing was overblown.
Re:Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development
by Schwolop on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:51PM
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I was coming here to say that the term for a problem which when solved makes people question whether it was necessary after all is a "Wicked Problem"[1], only to then discover that that's not it at all. So now I'm stumped - what is the word for that?
Because vaccines were so successful in their harm reduction to even elimination, there h
created a perverse belief that vaccines
were not effective, and then that they were actually harmful. Being ubiquitous and their effects the same, and the absence of their necessary disease.
Tools that solve problems experience a lifecycle that eventually if successful get weilded by people who never had firsthand experience of the problem.
Really a very large fractal problem space.
We envision a similar problem in autopilot system with 'safety' fall backs. For now, autopilots can disengage and let a pilot take control, but soon, we will run out of qualified pilots to disengage to, and no secure safety procedure.