I once bought whatever jamb saw they had available at one of the big box stores. It was basically unusable. Fundamentally flawed design. There's no possible wa

I once bought whatever jamb saw they had available at one of the big box stores. It was basically unusable. Fundamentally flawed design. There's no possible way anyone tried it and went "yes, this is fit for purpose". Worse, the complexity of its design which caused so much of the trouble (it had a single-sided blade that could be spun around—the locking mechanism was simply flawed, I didn't get a bad one, it just could not work well) could have been entirely avoided by spending barely more money on manufacturing. I mean it was also very dull but at least it would have been usable, if slow. I managed one jamb with it, taking probably 10x as long as a version of the tool fit-for-purpose would have, busting up my knuckles plenty, and making an uglier cut besides, so I could move on, and ordered a different one for the rest, since the store didn't have any other models. That's about the median quality of all tools and libraries I encounter in software, in my estimation. Size of vendor or how "smart" their employees allegedly are (LOL. LMFAO.) doesn't seem to much matter, either. And usually it's like that crappy jamb saw being the only jamb saw available at the store, except there's no option to skip the big box store and look for acceptable ones online, and if there are any other options they're somehow even worse. Luckily 99% of the tools for "real" work I've bought haven't been anywhere near that bad. Even the cheap ones. Almost all of them are more-or-less sensibly designed and actually do what they're supposed to without causing a huge amount of trouble. Most of an average day programming, for me, metaphorically, is swearing at this fucking piece of shit jamb saw while my knuckles bleed and I'm fucking around with its brokenness instead of getting anything done that I actually wanted to.