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No, we build off of each other’s knowledge. We learn some things, simplify them, and then build on that knowledge. We didn’t go right from wires and signals to JavaScript and web browsers, it was incremental, where each generation built off of the last one’s work.

That’s how many hours it would take today. But if we get a few fancy new libraries for ML, it could be trivial to implement. 20 years ago, if I told you a single developer could deploy a website with a db + authentication in about 20 mins, you’d call me a liar. But today, you can use a fullstack generator and deploy to heroku with the press of a few buttons.




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