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by ams6110 2708 days ago
> software that solves the problem (poorly) now is better than software that doesn't exist.

That has always been the case and is about as good a one-line summary of the software industry as I can think of.

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It could be a one line summary of Richard Gabriel's famous essay "The Rise of "Worse is Better""

https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

Done is better than good!