No. My point is more nuanced than that. All of the things in the article have value to someone, but their value to you is defined in terms of how much better they make your product.

If you spend so much time on the cumulation of product-adjacent activities that you don't make a good product, then their cumulative value to you was negative.

But I do, personally, love a good build system. The value is extremely high and it only takes 10 minutes to set one up.

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johnfn 3 days ago | parent [-]

But then you’re just saying “you should spend time on things which are valuable”. Isn’t that obvious?

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misiek08 3 days ago | parent [-]

Not so sure these days tbh. People are trying to shove as much shiny tools as possible instead of sometimes writing 10 vanilla JS lines and proceed to next feature or project. Maybe it’s already exhausted, but left-pad, is-odd, is-even are still my examples for people.

	▲	johnfn 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		You seem to be lumping left-pad together with unit tests and build tools like typescript, then saying they are all bad because left-pad is bad.