| Weird that people consider this a question. I think it's objectively possible to say if a task is harder than another: 1) One problem is harder than the other if it requires more knowledge. E.g. to code AI you need to have programming skills, AI related skills, statistics skills and graph theory skills, plus whatever your domain knowledge is (e.g. how to build the code in your company's environment). 2) One problem is harder than the other if it requires more skills. 3) [...] harder if it requires a higher composition level of skills. E.g. configuring a firewall via iptables is harder than configuring a firewall via your router's web gui, since the first requires bash, Linux, tcp/ip related skills as a foundation to even understand what iptables does. The gui may only require a limited set of networking skills and 2 pages of router handbook. 4)[...] harder if it is more complex. Coding your own kernel is harder than coding your own calculator. 5)[...] harder if it requires more departments. "Go to market" of your product therefore is a harder task than "proof of concept". 6)[...] harder if it relies on more legacy code. Legacy code always contains domain knowledge that is unaware to most people, even to the developers. Changing that code or its environment yields a lot of surprises. |