The evolution of software development over the past decade has been very frustrating. Little of it seems to makes sense, even to those of us who are right in the middle of it.

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The labour arbitrage theory suggests that the long-term popularity of software development tools is proportional to how much they enable labour arbitrage. This theory explains why certain tools and frameworks gain more funding and adoption from management despite their technical deficiencies. The post explores the concept of labour arbitrage in relation to popular technologies like MongoDB, React, and Electron, and discusses why these technologies may be objectively worse than alternatives.

React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity

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<p>as a pairing with the above article.</p>
