What’s the most complicated toolchain or stack that’s still within the capacity of a single motivated human to master (not a rare genius)?

If a pencil+paper is the simplest toolchain what’s at the other end of the spectrum?

Solo video production seems up there. Maybe an 8/10

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primitive technology guy’s stuff is up there re: taking “from scratch” to true extreme

would also call out my mechanics on YouTube who does restorations and “i make a new one” is like a meme among his fanbase given his ability to generally fabricate anything

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ooh had Claude think through this and it brought up fully analog audio engineering