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by taneq 2461 days ago
I think it's a tongue-in-cheek way of saying "don't chase the latest framework/paradigm/trend/fad unless you have a solid reason to do so".

There's always an exploration/exploitation tradeoff when choosing your tech stack, and in my opinion most programmers overinvest in exploration, given that the terrain is infinite and covered in roughly equal local optima.