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speasetoday at 2:43 AM1 replyview on HN

> You can't have a house built 100% fast but also 100% cheap and with 100% quality.

That’s essentially what technological development does, is make those tradeoffs more favorable.


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tovejtoday at 1:06 PM

No? The conventional engineering wisdom has always been: pick two out of fast, cheap, or good.

And technological improvements don't remove these tradeoffs. You still have to balance tradeoffs. The best thing you could do is have a mix of technologies that choose different tradeoffs. A single technology (zig) won't do.