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As someone experienced with operations / technical debt / weird company specific nonsense (Platform Engineer). No, you have to solve nuclear fusion at <insert-my-company>. You gotta do it over and over again. If it were that simple we wouldn't have even needed AI we would have hand written a few things, and then everything would have been legos, and legos of legos, but it takes a LONG time to find new true legos.


I'm pretty sure everything is Lego and Legos of Legos.

You show me something new and I say look down at who's shoulders we're standing on, what libraries we've build with.


Yeah you’re right, all businesses are made of identical, interchangeable parts that we can swap out at our leisure.

This is why enterprises change ERP systems frictionlessly, and why the field of software engineering is no longer required. In fact, given that apparently, all business is solved, we can probably just template them all out, call it a day and all go home.


Yeah but thats not a Lego. A Lego is something that fits everwhere else. Not just previous work. There's a lot of previous work. There are very few true Legos.




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