[LtWorf]

If you spend less than 15 minutes before even deciding which library to include and if include it at all. You're probably doing it wrong.

[smikhanov]

No, that person is doing it right. That’s 15 minutes of your life you’ll never get back; no library is worth it.

[faizshah]

If your goal is “ship it” then you might be right. If your goal is “ship it, and don’t break anything else, and don’t cause any security issues in the future and don’t rot the codebase, and be able to explain why you did it that way and why you didn’t use X” then you’re probably wrong.

[LtWorf]

The past weeks at work have been spent replacing libraries that were picked in less than 15 minutes.

Was this cost effective for the company?

[LtWorf]

That applies to working in general.