Most of this article is hyperbole. I work on a large Android application, and while there's some overhead the majority of my time is spent coding. Look at any

Most of this article is hyperbole. I work on a large Android application, and while there's some overhead the majority of my time is spent coding. Look at any other engineering discipline and the overhead they have to deal with for their projects. Overhead is intrinsic to any large engineering project. As programmers we are actually spoiled with the fast feedback loop available to us. Learning all the tools is part of the trade. Yes, it can be a pain to do everything, but these tools wouldn't exist if they didn't produce some sort of net gain.