That's a restatement of the hacker ethos. I.e., why waste 10 minutes on a boring one-off solution when you can spend 1 month building a library that reduces all

That's a restatement of the hacker ethos. I.e., why waste 10 minutes on a boring one-off solution when you can spend 1 month building a library that reduces all future boring one-off solutions to 1 minute?