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That's actually a good analogy.

A novice surgeon operating under the impression the nursing and anesthetics staff will help them if they make a mistake, will kill a patient very quickly.

Just because you can't necessarily do surgery effectively without these teams doesn't mean you don't need the senior surgeon to train you first (or senior surgeons to begin with).

And a bad anaesthetist or a nurse that obstructs the surgeon's view will kill a patient despite the quality of the surgeon, though the adept surgeon may manage to spot impending doom early and work around it.

The big problem comes when aspiring surgeons without the necessary experience think it's all small potatoes because they don't have to know much about which scalpel to use because the nurse will hand it to them anyway.

So yes, if the cost of killing unnecessary amounts of patients so that eventually you will learn to do surgery this way is fine, then by all means code like a surgeon from day one. Otherwise go to medschool first like the rest of us.



The author kindly informs us that he is a "UI prototyper [...] tinkering with design concepts" and also that he works for a company making AI coding software. This double-whammy may somewhat explain the strong Dunning-Kruger gravitational lensing observed when viewing the article from a distance.


Is Notion a company making "AI coding software" these days?

If you want to learn more about Geoffrey I suggest browsing through https://www.geoffreylitt.com/#projects - I've been following his work for a few years, "UI prototyper" is him under-selling himself.




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