The Minority Report

I think this clip is the money shot but if you program, I think you will find this article extremely interesting.

It has occurred to me that the reason for this could simply be that programming is so damned hard it can’t be automated. As a result, there’s no way to produce the gradations of craftsmanship that you see in dressers (from the mass-produced pressboard affairs to the hand-crafted hardwood masterpieces). With software all you get are the hand-crafted versions. Sure, some of them are simply horrible, but they’re all hand-crafted.
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