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> Honest question: What is preventing you from understanding any part of the stack now?

Bringing this question out of the thread and back to the current moment...

the recurring answer now is "futility in the face of churn", I think.

It's the Mad Hatter's tea party, you sit down, you figure out how it works, and then poof a third of its gets overwritten and your past investment is significantly washed away by someone who absolutely didn't put the same amount of thought into what is replacing it.

Underrated observation, extremely trenchant.

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