The whole idea of someone's code being perfectly handcrafted may have been true in 1998, but any project you start now builds on a tower of open source librarie

The whole idea of someone's code being perfectly handcrafted may have been true in 1998, but any project you start now builds on a tower of open source libraries frameworks, and container images - probably running on someone else's infra. Nobody is really starting from a blank page anymore.