I think my biggest change as a dev isn't so much a concrete opinion, but a feeling. The words "I invented a..." used to be inspiring, now they fill me with dre

I think my biggest change as a dev isn't so much a concrete opinion, but a feeling. The words "I invented a..." used to be inspiring, now they fill me with dread. I used to always be on the lookout for places where I could build something better than what's out there. And almost every one of those became a liability more than an asset. In the industrial revolution and surrounding time periods there was a big shift from made to fit to made to measure. Previously you'd have a screw you made specifically for this project, all that mattered was that it fit the threads. Now you have an M3 screw, and what matters is that it fits any M3 nut. I always go for made to measure. There are standards everyone knows. I no longer want to do mental gymnastics to convince myself that my 50 line script was a better choice than Ansible.