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3 of Kent C. Dodds's claims fit 3 mental models. Most often: Cheaper means more, not less, Lock-in and switching costs, Make it real.
Make something cheaper to use and people use so much more of it that the total goes up (Jevons paradox).
Their wordsWhen it becomes so easy to generate a custom app for something specific, more people will do it.
People stay with what they would not choose again because leaving costs more than staying; watch who sets that cost.
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Making a cheap, real version settles questions a description cannot.
Their wordsThat is the part that usually makes architectural iteration slow: you have to build the thing before you can have an informed opinion about whether it is the right thing.