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> We treat every new project like a piece of bespoke furniture, meticulously hand-carving the same legs, joints, and frames that have been built a million times before.

No, we don't. The scale of his own code contributions relative to "Postgres, Timescale and S3), a view layer (a set of Vue web apps) and a business logic layer, consisting of a set of NestJS") is negligible. The price he paid was the time it took to climb a learning curve.



@yobbo author here. Totally agree on my contributions being negligible ;) That being said, doesn't that actually prove the point? If a good amount of business value is coming from gluing pieces together, why not start from the top?




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