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by tobr 1970 days ago
> Boring doesn't work if the solution you've picked has flaws that the new technology addresses out-of-the-box.

Problem is, the old thing has known benefits and known flaws, while the new thing has known benefits but unknown flaws.

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> while the new thing has known benefits but unknown flaws

I think I'd claim the new thing has _claimed_ benefits. Very often those benefits turn out to be nonsense, driven by marketing and hype cycles.

By a Tesla, it has Auto Pilot!

By autopilot we just mean some slightly more advanced driver assist, it's not actually autopilot, and if you treat it as such you're probably going to die, at best.

This happens to be one outsized point of the earlier "Choose Boring Technology" piece that is linked: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology