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Because people are wasting time and tokens doing irrelevant to the bottom line things.

Cool you spent 2 days and $200 building a react UI for your spreadsheet.

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Bingo. Bullshit work grows to accommodate productivity gains.

Is it easier to implement a design now? Then let’s redesign every quarter.

Is it easier to refactor the whole codebase? Then let’s rewrite in whatever new hotness.

This is not different from web frameworks 10-20 years ago. Is it easier to make a website using Rails? If so, why did I see an explosion in devs-per-project after I started using Rails? Because of the BS.