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# Simplicity is essential in a generative world
- URL: https://www.taivo.ai/__simplicity-is-essential-in-a-generative-world/
- Published: 2023-10-18T19:23:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-04T11:24:48.000Z
- Author: Taivo Pungas
- Tags: Products, stream

- "less is more" ([proverb](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/less%5Fis%5Fmore?ref=taivo.ai))
- "perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away" ([Antoine de Saint Exupéry](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antoine%5Fde%5FSaint%5FExup%C3%A9ry?ref=taivo.ai))
- "omit needless words" ([Strunk & White](https://www.investmentwriting.com/omit-needless-words-excerpt-from-strunks-the-elements-of-style/?ref=taivo.ai))
- "It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer" ([Occam's razor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s%5Frazor?ref=taivo.ai))
- you should have *One great reason* to do anything -- if you have 3 or 4, one probably dominates
- you can do something great if and only if it is your *One greatest desire*; if you have many desires they will compete you won't get extraordinary results in any of them

All the above phrases, and many like them, describe a criterion of greatness: simplicity.

As generating (text, images, videos, code, ...) has become almost trivially easy, the skill of removing is now especially important. So *Seek simplicity*.