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luuio | 8 months ago

> there is always more wisdom in what we throw away than what we innovate

i have found this to be true throughout my career. not that things cannot improve, they can always improve. but assuming the original work wasn't grossly incompetent, anything "new" tend to make the same [undocumented] mistakes

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TZubiri|8 months ago

An interesting mathematical caveat is that regardless of whether the majority of the work thrown out is correct, throwing the baby with the bathwater may still be optimal, as it might be the only way to affect change. It's not like decreasing the rate of change would decrease the amount of false positives discarded.