Totally agree with this. I spent way too long fighting my dev environment last month before I finally sat down and properly configured everything. The ROI on fixing your tools is insane - what took me 2 hours of yak-shaving per week now takes zero.

The hard part is convincing yourself it's worth the upfront time. There's always "real work" that feels more urgent than fixing your build script or editor config.

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fragmede 5 hours ago | parent [-]

https://xkcd.com/1205/

	▲	saulpw a minute ago \| parent [-]
		This comic ("Is it worth the time?") is categorically incorrect, because it assumes a static system. Instead, when you make something take less time, you can do it more often. Sometimes, much more often. See: Jevon's Paradox. You would never have known that CI/CD was a useful strategy since you didn't optimize your build because you only did a full build when you released.