Comment by archagon

> Also, by your own metrics, laziness is a virtue, and copying, pasting, and editing is much easier and lazier than maintaining boilerplate tools. So it's not even following your 3 commandments.

I mean, so is paying someone to write the code for you, but you're not really an engineer at that point, are you?

Engineering involves using stable, deterministic abstractions and components and understanding the architecture and ramifications of your design on a deep level. Yes, you can outsource this work. But don't delude yourself into thinking that you're still in the same profession.

(Of course, maybe you always thought of yourself as an entrepreneur and only saw coding as a means to an end. I think a lot of people are coming to that conclusion.)