For accidental complexity, AI is not just a silver bullet, it's practically a nuclear bomb. For essential complexity, it's not even a single bullet.

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Accidental complexity is artificially introduced. Writing machine code by hand is error-prone, high-level languages solved that; manual memory management is prone to leaks, GC solved that. Each generation of tools eliminates the accidental complexity of the previous generation.

Essential complexity is inherent to the problem. What exactly should this system do? Are there contradictions between requirements? Is what the user says the same as what they want? $Microsoft(MSFT.US)$Meta Platforms(META.US)$NVIDIA(NVDA.US)

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