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React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity (www.baldurbjarnason.com)
submitted 6 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev
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The evolution of software development over the past decade has been very frustrating. Little of it seems to makes sense, even to those of us who are right in the middle of it. My theory is fairly straightforward:

The long-term popularity of any given tool for software development is proportional to how much labour arbitrage it enables.

The more effective it is at enabling labour arbitrage, the more funding and adoption it gets from management.

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[–] duhdugg@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

The components sourced from an intern fixing ChatGPT’s output just enough for it to run and the exhaustively tested ones from a senior developer are equivalent in the eyes of management.

Um. What? This is not normal. Seek better management.