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by devdri 435 days ago
Totally agree that the constant churn of new tools which come and go makes adapting to them and truly mastering them feel pointless. But there’s also the well established old things which (according to Lindy’s Effect) will be there for a long time still - things like Vim, Emacs, efficiently using shell. Investing time in truly mastering them seems like a good long term bet.