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This author saw a few examples of the metric chasing phenomenon, promptly forgot how many counter-examples exist, and wrote this lovely article for you to latch on to with matching outrage.

But it is simply untrue.

Just the other day a single engineer completed a 25 year project to emulate VideoDisc games. There’s a new JS framework or a new static site generator every day of the week. And with LLMs it’s never been easier to be curious about something and go tinker.



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