2024-06-15 00:11 UTC
@polotek@social.polotek.net Under this understanding, we can clearly see that these systems act as not just as accelerants for adoption of new things, but dampers as well. Underlying syntax and semantics drift over time, and each of these tools present an ongoing cost for keeping up with that change. The taller the stack, the more they cost in opportunity *and* inner-loop development *and *in debugging overhead.
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@slightlyoff@toot.cafe 2024-06-15 00:13
@polotek@social.polotek.net So let's say each of these tools have a constant additive value for some feature they enable. How tall a stack, owned for how long, does a system need to adopt to overwhelm whatever benefit they provided at first? In a lot of teams I've worked with, the answer is *very* obviously that the tools stopped serving them, and that now they're serving the tools with no mgmt awareness of the cost.