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by JoeAltmaier 390 days ago
If we're talking about execution hours for common apps, that stat might be close to real.

If we're talking about engineering effort to create performant, deployable apps and systems, it may be different.

There are a significant number of difficult software systems that require complete knowledge of what's going on 'under the hood'. Think, runtime for all those wonderful abstractions. Libraries to port huge systems to different hardware and operating systems.

The large datacenter infrastructure that supports all the magic.

Those things are an entirely different universe than 'put up a webpage' or 'auto-generate a schema' or whatever.