I think you'll find most of the people creating the HTTP proxy servers and brand new AI harnesses and git or ssh config managers and all of the other things that we already have way too many versions of are not our best software engineers anyhow. I like to analyze things in terms of how much of the real world they've encountered [1], and one of the reasons I would just put my own solutions together is a lot of these manifested major projects with huge lists of "features" have either one user, or in many cases, zero, which is to say even the author isn't actually using it, and I might as well put together my 1-user project myself.
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I think you'll find most of the people creating the HTTP proxy servers and brand new AI harnesses and git or ssh config managers and all of the other things that we already have way too many versions of are not our best software engineers anyhow. I like to analyze things in terms of how much of the real world they've encountered [1], and one of the reasons I would just put my own solutions together is a lot of these manifested major projects with huge lists of "features" have either one user, or in many cases, zero, which is to say even the author isn't actually using it, and I might as well put together my 1-user project myself.
[1]: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2026/what_value_code_in_ai_era/