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Making software cannot be repetitive and is always novel. Commands like cp, scp, cat, git clone... made the repetition part redundant eons ago. The first magnetic tape did.

Cloning data is so low cost. Cloning a car is high cost.

It makes sense to tame the complexity and think waterfall vs. this or that but we aint building cars or houses.






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