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by Koshkin 3566 days ago
> conditioned on the complexity

Indeed, difference in complexity is the key here.

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I'm confused. Are you agreeing with me?
It's a back-handed agreement. Static typing increases value with project complexity and head count. So yes, if you only ever do small tasks with low or singular head count, then dynamic typing probably works OK for you.
As complexity increases, the probability approaches zero that any code works exactly as desired on first execution. I'd still take that bet. Of course, I'd have to be able to use the REPL about as often as a someone uses a compiler.