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by goodpoint 1885 days ago
> huge difference between a zero to one tooling effort and an N to N+1 tooling effort

Spot on. There's a serious point of diminishing returns when piling up tools.

At some point the cost of learning, adapting, deploying, maintaining yet another tool becomes a net negative.

Often the solution is to replace 5 fancy tools with 100 lines of Python and Bash.