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The hunger for tinkering affordances helps explain the ubiquity of spreadsheets in the business world. [long subthread left as an exercise for the reader]

It also helps explain the traction of the “AI Agent” marketing. I can’t think of a technology that’s simultaneously done a better job of removing barriers to user-designed automation and simultaneously done a worse job of helping people dealing with the consequences of automation. (Security and data integrity are two the big places where attempts at deep tinkering affordances have crashed and burned.)

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