// Addy Osmani · 29 December 2025

The Efficiency Paradox: Why Making Software Easier to Write Means We'll Write Exponentially More

Every time we've made it easier to write software, we've ended up writing exponentially more of it. History suggests we won't do less work - we'll discover we've been massively under-investing in knowledge work because it was too expensive to do all the things that were actually worth doing.

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