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turtlebitsyesterday at 1:55 PM1 replyview on HN

The one day, your chef leaves, the food goes to shit and productivity/output/morale drops. When the new chef arrives, then everyone has to relearn everything.

Software shouldn't be bespoke and "artisan".


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maratcyesterday at 2:03 PM

And here's where this abstraction breaks: when a programmer leaves, their code is not going anywhere.

The bigger problem is this: you want me to be a cog wheel, but I want to be an artist.

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