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Oct. 20, 2023

Bullets of vaguely silvery hue

published by James Bennett
in blog James Bennett
original entry Bullets of vaguely silvery hue

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even a single order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

If “The Mythical Man-Month” — or at least the popular distillation of it into a single pithy saying — is the most famous thing the late Fred Brooks ever wrote, then “No Silver Bullet”, the essay quoted above, must surely be the most infamous, or perhaps …

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