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Re:There's still no silver bullet by mtlynch on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @05:00PM (#36498584)
I'm not sure what you mean.

If we're evaluating whether Brooks was correct in his "no silver bullet" prediction, then overall productivity is the bar because his prediction was about overall productivity of a dev team.

I agree that git improves productivity over passing around zip files, but it doesn't disprove Brooks' prediction.

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Re:There's still no silver bullet by GrinningFool on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:03AM (#36519826)
Fair point, in the context of a silver bullet his intent was clearly to describe a single thing that improved productivity across the board. I had to go re-read the paper to reset my perspective.
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