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> things like "lack of reliable, quality devtools" and "inability to customize interfaces" bother highly-productive engineers I've seen people go down a rabbit
by bradleyjg 8y ago
> things like "lack of reliable, quality devtools" and "inability to customize interfaces" bother highly-productive engineers
I've seen people go down a rabbit hole of optimizing tooling to the point where it crowds out using those tools to actually accomplish anything. At some point worse is better.
- wutbrodo 8y agoOf course; if you ignore the possibility of optimization, then the claim becomes almost a taoutology. In practice however, I notice this a lot less often than I notice the reverse.