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"Throughout the history of software development, employers have consistently preferred to fund tools that deskill and attempt to abstract expertise away over tools that genuinely improve productivity and the quality of the output, but also happen to require expertise and skill.

This has worked so far because the software industry is usually flooded with money."

- Catching up with @baldur's essay from earlier this year: *"React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity"*

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/