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Everyone wants to be Tony Stark, nobody wants to be the janitor. Thus things fall apart and get constantly rebuild, in a "good-enough-fashion", which is very reminiscent of biologic life.

We are codes transport mechanism, without us, its not alive. And only good code gets copied, reused, to life on till heat death.

I love the Iron Man reference. Everyone is always chasing the shiny new thing. Since my company build devtools the shiny thing is the thing that usually gets rusty - which is kind of the whole point I guess.

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