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The absence or presence of craftsmanship is primarily a differentiator in which sandboxes you get to play.

You simply cannot build e.g. a viable dbms without at least a modicum of software craftsmanship. If you attempt such a thing with the shovelware mindset of most user-facing applications, it will simply never come together.




Oh it'll come together, and quite quickly too! Moments before eating all your data :P




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