> It's a natural human impulse I don't know about that. It certainly seems common amongst the programmer crowd. But I've found that there's plenty of people ca

> It's a natural human impulse I don't know about that. It certainly seems common amongst the programmer crowd. But I've found that there's plenty of people capable of doing the "5 hours of routine work" without ever thinking "If I spend like 4 hours engineering this weird hack, then I might get this done really fast" (and then of course ending up wasting days trying to get it to work)