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Any delegation of work from one person to another involves a loss of context and distorts incentives. The only way out entirely is to build your own software to solve your own problems.

See the principal agent problem in economics.

Unfortunately subsistence software engineering isn’t a viable profession because the productive capacity of a single engineer is limited. And we occasionally need physical stuff like food/water.



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