>The idea of polishing dev tools used to seem counter-intuitive to me, but I’ve come around on that. The last thing you want is to dread doing your job, and if you can make parts of your job joyful, then I think you’re likely to be more productive and do better work.

hmm?

what's the difference between internal tools

and normal stuff like docker, compilers, ci/cd tools, package managers, etc?

it's the same shit