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Tog's Paradox

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166 points adzicg | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 12:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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crazygringo ◴[22 Oct 24 13:49 UTC] No.41914235[source]▶
Not really sure what makes this a "paradox"?

Seems like a lot of words to say that, when you deliver the features users want, then they will continue to want more features. (And all these features keep making users more productive/efficient, so it's a good thing.)

And, of course, more features means more software complexity.

But I'm struggling to see a paradox here, or even what's supposed to be the novel observation.

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1. elijahjohnston ◴[22 Oct 24 13:56 UTC] No.41914328[source]▶
I think the paradox comes from the assumption that one of the goals of a software product is to simplify a human task. Where the paradox comes into play is that it actually increases the complexity of that human task.

I could be wrong!