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Even the people making software barely want to make software honestly, but you gotta make that daily bread somehow and sometimes it's kinda cool I guess? But like people overestimate the desire of the average person to be their own software maintainer, most people consume, not produce, regardless of ease and trying to turn everyone into a producer is... kind of the opposite of where society has been going for a very long time.

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There are areas of expertise or experience, where I know, that no one else has actually made the right tool for me, so I have to make it myself, and I like being able to do it myself. One is a good tool for learning the vocabulary of Mandarin. I just have very specific ideas how it should work and look and I don't think there is any other tool, that does it like my personal tool. I like such projects, but I think even among developers, the percentage of devs thinking like this is decreasing, as there are fewer and fewer people in this profession, who are in it because they actually love developing things, compared to more and more who do it for the money.

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