> It really seems that in earlier years, when resources were limited, people really used their ingenuity far better than today.
Naw. We just use our ingenuity to solve higher level problems. Or more precisely use it to solve the “actual problem” trying to be solved and not incidental problems caused by not being able to work at the right level of abstraction.
Mumble mumble Mythical Man Month and “no silver bullet”. There will always be the “real problem” to solve. It is just over time our level of tooling will let us focus more and more on solving the problem itself instead of tooling problems...
Naw. We just use our ingenuity to solve higher level problems. Or more precisely use it to solve the “actual problem” trying to be solved and not incidental problems caused by not being able to work at the right level of abstraction.
Mumble mumble Mythical Man Month and “no silver bullet”. There will always be the “real problem” to solve. It is just over time our level of tooling will let us focus more and more on solving the problem itself instead of tooling problems...