I once started working at a company that sold one of those visual programming things, and during training I was tasked with making a simple program, I was a bit overwhelmed with the amount of bugs and lack of tools to make basic features, so I made a prototype of the application I wanted in python, the plan was to port it later, I got it in a couple of days.
The tool developers weren't keen of the idea, they told me "Yeah, I can solve the problem with a script too, the challenge is to do it with our tool". And I thought it was kind of funny how they admitted that the premise of the tool didn't work.
It's like this holy grail panacea that arises 20 times every month, developers want to invent something that will avoid the work of actually developing, so they sunk-cost-fallacy themselves into a deep hole out of which they can only escape if they admit that they are tasked with automating, they cannot meta-automate themselves, and that they will have to gasp do some things manually and repeatedly, like any other working class.
The tool developers weren't keen of the idea, they told me "Yeah, I can solve the problem with a script too, the challenge is to do it with our tool". And I thought it was kind of funny how they admitted that the premise of the tool didn't work.
It's like this holy grail panacea that arises 20 times every month, developers want to invent something that will avoid the work of actually developing, so they sunk-cost-fallacy themselves into a deep hole out of which they can only escape if they admit that they are tasked with automating, they cannot meta-automate themselves, and that they will have to gasp do some things manually and repeatedly, like any other working class.