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First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution
TL;DR: First-class models with branching and merging capabilities represent an almost entirely unused enormous productivity and expressiveness unlock in programming and computer systems.
TL;DR: First-class models with branching and merging capabilities represent an almost entirely unused enormous productivity and expressiveness unlock in programming and computer systems. Today, when faced with these questions, professionals resort to crude workarounds: rough estimates, Excel spreadsheets copied from the main system, or in rare cases, custom programs written specifically for the analysis. This approach solves what we might call “spreadsheet escape”—the common pattern where users copy data into Excel to explore scenarios, losing connection to the authoritative source and creating reconciliation problems.
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