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by gldrk 180 days ago
It's absolutely possible to be mistaken about this. The placebo effect is very strong. I'm sure there are countless things in my own workflow that feel like a huge boon to me while being a wash at best in reality. The classic keyboard vs. mouse study comes to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657135

This is why it's so important to have data. So far I have not seen any evidence of a 'Cambrian explosion' or 'industrial revolution' in software.

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> So far I have not seen any evidence of a 'Cambrian explosion' or 'industrial revolution' in software.

The claim was that they’re useful at all, not that it’s a Cambrian explosion.

>This is why it's so important to have data.

"In God we trust, all others must bring data."