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Consider the gross inefficiency in the other direction. To simply edit done simple data, you have to have how much code and infrastructure? And how much of that is plagued by bitrot?



It is a "scaling" problem. At small scales, yes, human time can be more valuable than computer time. At large scales, humans will sacrifice their own time to make computers work faster. The problem is with intermediate scale, where the computer takes a bit too long to do simple things.




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