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Same reason we (SW engineers) think X field is easy and can be self-taught: the fundamentals are easy to learn, but figuring out where and how to deal with edge cases when they pop up is something that can only be learned with experience.

I see the same with a certain subset of finance people who learn Python, and start thinking coding is easy. Yeah, fair you can whip some simple Jupyter notebook using Pandas to analyze time-series. Now build out a distributed, fault-tolerant ETL (CRUD++) system that follows all business rules, is maintainable/readable, and can scale to atleast 100 "servers."

Perhaps not the most apt comparison -- but the fundamentals in every field are easy to learn; but working at the edge is something you have no experience in until you do.

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> Same reason we (SW engineers) think X field is easy and can be self-taught: the fundamentals are easy to learn, but figuring out where and how to deal with edge cases when they pop up is something that can only be learned with experience.

Ironic post from the person who thinks Reddit would be trivial to recreate. Your whole account reads like a parody.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36147180

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I've worked on problems much harder than Reddit. Reddit is a trivial problem.