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ChrisMarshallNY on Oct 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug re...

Agreed. Like Henry Ford is quoted as saying:

    "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have told me 'A faster horse!'."

godelski on Oct 24, 2021 [–]

Yeah and it takes skill to distill what they actually want out of that comment. People don't want a faster horse, they want a faster method of transportation. This is easy to miss, especially the more technical jargon people use when explaining what they want.

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