> Paying fractions of employee cost in tooling is only viewed as absurd in software. In literally every other industry spending tens to hundreds of thousands of

> Paying fractions of employee cost in tooling is only viewed as absurd in software. In literally every other industry spending tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per engineer to make them productive is just viewed as good business sense. I suspect that part of the problem is that it's difficult to measure developer productivity, while it's a lot easier to measure headcount.