I've spent way too long working around the jank and extra features in Other People's Software.

Now I can just make my own that does exactly what I want and need, nothing more and nothing less. It's just for me, it's not a SaaS or a "start-up" I'm the CEO of.

That seems to be what a significant chunk of the "insane productivity" is actually going into

Because it’s very easy todo nowadays. Why making compromises in your workflow anymore?

Remember that OpenAI ran statistics on ChatGPT conversations and found development related conversations were in the low 10s https://openai.com/index/how-people-are-using-chatgpt/ - the people who enjoy rolling everything these days is representative of our echo-chamber.

Seriously? The most common complains on HN is how every software is built upon Electron and React.