I think it highlights something that is common in software engineering in general: it's incredibly easy to forget how much of development time is ultimately R&D.
Paul benefited from Altwork's ten years of development, protoypes, 80,000 hours bla bla bla. The existence of the Altwork station and especially the 3-8 generations means that Paul could essentially avoid all the ergonomic decisions and many of the technical ones too... until he comes across something that doesn't work for him. But it saves a lot of time having something to crib from!
In some ways this is like a code refactor - different tools, aiming to make it cheaper/more efficient, but using the R&D knowledge from previous iterations. Given the state of the software industry I'm just glad he didn't get tempted to use Svelte somehow.
Paul benefited from Altwork's ten years of development, protoypes, 80,000 hours bla bla bla. The existence of the Altwork station and especially the 3-8 generations means that Paul could essentially avoid all the ergonomic decisions and many of the technical ones too... until he comes across something that doesn't work for him. But it saves a lot of time having something to crib from!
In some ways this is like a code refactor - different tools, aiming to make it cheaper/more efficient, but using the R&D knowledge from previous iterations. Given the state of the software industry I'm just glad he didn't get tempted to use Svelte somehow.