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▲ Fwirt 5 hours ago

Really, the ux barrier is how much "free" time you have to devote to training your mind to overcome the ux barrier. While many of us live and breathe this kind of abstraction, the "average" person does not want to learn a new kind of mental gymnastics to accomplish everyday tasks.

You can study for a lifetime to become Yen Sid and teach the broom to fetch water for you without lifting a finger, or you can just fetch the dang water yourself in 10 minutes.

▲james_marks 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

See also: Tourists, Bears, and Trashcans

▲topaz0 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Claude (or whatever bloated proprietary software you are using it to circumvent) is the magic broom, notwithstanding the fact that you weren't the one teaching it. bash is fetching the dang water yourself. We're not talking about inventing novel algorithms here, or writing some masterpiece of code that will always guess your intention correctly. Back before mass-marketed consumer software, plenty of regular people made it work without a computer science degree or a particular genius.