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There’s no silver bullet. Conceptualization is the hard part, exactly as you say. Mythical man-month is an important text and should be studied more.


And also the seminal papers by Gödel, Turing, and the books on cybernetics (robotics and automation in 1950s) by Ashby and Wiener.

The limits of what can be automated have been clear for almost a century now. Yet people insist in selling ways to automate your way out of social, political, economical problems. Come to think about it, people should also read Comways's paper as well.


What is Comways's paper?





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