But they learn in the process and become better engineers, I don’t agree it’s time wasted, it’s all about balance, if EKS fails and you understand every syscall and are able to capture traffick and understand it suddenly you don’t need to wait for external support but you are an engineer and troubleshoot and fix in the moment
2026-05-02 12:44:37
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Cod :
how much more would we spend on software if no one did this...
2026-05-16 22:35:44
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Pete Sramek :
If you spend 60 and use about 10% of the product, then it is better to build it on your own. You can make it better for your personal experience. But I agree that if you really use majority of the product and it simply is worth that 60 you are wasting your time. Unless you want to learn and eventually showcase your own implementation and open source it for others to use.
2026-05-02 19:45:47
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The Tech Spectrum :
And maintenance new features hosting security sound like a nightmare
2026-05-16 20:02:41
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fhritp :
and real programmers realize that most of the time that 60 bucks aint worth the fking hassle to write it yourself.
2026-05-05 09:17:51
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Its javi :
It’s too early in the morning to be called out like this, man. I was up to 4am writing my own cube.dev
2026-05-02 15:29:14
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Rioter Neeko :
nah you tell Claude to build it for you and enjoy it within 30 minutes of bug fixing / tweaking
2026-05-04 06:23:41
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cas :
it aint about the money, it's about experience and having fun building your own thing
2026-05-04 17:43:32
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Jay Long :
With AI it's worse
2026-05-04 03:57:51
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catch(Exception e) :
I don’t mind paying, I’m just unsure what to pay for as the market is so saturated.
2026-05-03 16:32:34
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SomeGuy :
but its still a great learning opportunity
2026-05-02 17:33:14
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cosmicricey :
convenient until outages, bugs, profiteering and shutdown when they can't make enough money
2026-05-02 16:18:55
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notbob :
Been there done that
2026-05-02 17:25:51
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scaniamo :
"thousands of dollars of their time" they arent selling it tho? They do that because they want to.
If we calculate everything like that then all hobbies and freetime activities are a waste of time, because you *couldve* made money during that time.
2026-05-03 08:56:20
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Chino Cappuchino :
It’s no longer a question of money, when you earn enough, you start craving the time you lost
2026-05-02 11:09:53
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the.actual.chad :
No. Convenience is a fine thing, but ownership and control are superior.
2026-05-02 15:50:05
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Zamuroy :
then give it out for free, so your sacrifice save millions for everybody else and if many people do that everybody but corpos wins
2026-05-03 07:36:36
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johnwatson710 :
Every child needs to be tought basic economics
2026-05-04 10:03:46
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