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Using a dependency carries ongoing maintenance costs, not just upfront convenience

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Subjectsdeveloper toolssoftware performance
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software performance Speed as a mark of quality: bloat, boot times, and software that got slower on hardware that got faster.

Mental modelsSecond-order thinking, Everything decays without maintenance

What Thorsten Ball actually said

  1. Thorsten Ball Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
    Dependencies aren't free. You have to keep them up to date. They increase your compile or loading times.

    Where this was said

    ↗Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com

    17 May 2022

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