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5350-uiop-1130 on July 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to make websites that will require lots of you...

well you've decided they're "software-level". this article title talks about "time and energy".

most of the time the real trade off is financial.

especially now with AI generated boilerplate and npm commands that shit out 10,000 lines of code at a keystroke.

bubblyworld on July 28, 2025 [–]

I don't think the choice of metric matters to my point (I'm just calling it software-level because these are decisions you make while writing software). These decisions come with both pros and cons either way, which it sounds like you agree with.

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