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THE EFFICIENCY PARADOX: WHY MAKING SOFTWARE EASIER TO WRITE MEANS WE'LL WRITE EXPONENTIALLY MORE

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Efficiency improvements reveal latent demand that was previously uneconomic to address. The pattern is consistent throughout history. We are about to see an increase in knowledge work output of several orders of magnitude. This will likely reveal that humanity has been massively under-investing in knowledge work because it was too expensive.