> Edit: Oh almost forgot my “favorite”: environments where open source is leveraged heavily. Millions of lines of imported code, at best 5% was written internal

> Edit: Oh almost forgot my “favorite”: environments where open source is leveraged heavily. Millions of lines of imported code, at best 5% was written internally. But somehow the business environment is that they’re engineering thought leaders for building a “tech biz” around a traditional business model. Smh This is definitely a serious issue. Imo, unless the project is tiny, your own codebase should be at least the majority of whatever binary is shipped, otherwise you're adding very little value.