Thoughts
The previous Thought may lead to the counter-intuitive case for minimalism.
A HN user mocked solderpunk for using markdown-style backticks to denote code in a Gemini document. But there’s no contradiction there. For the human, markdown is better. More features are better. But if you pursue that mantra to its conclusion you end up with slow, buggy software that gives you exactly what you said you wanted. Chess is solved for black. 16 quintillion moves.
In a way, computers are the ultimate test of self-restraint, because they’ll give you what you ask for with a limit yet-undiscovered by humans. (Solving chess seems like a fundamental limit right now, which is what makes having a computer solve it such a good prompt.)