One downside of perfectly bespoke tools: they rot away.
- One downside of perfectly bespoke tools: they rot away.[rm]
- All software rots away as the surrounding context changes.
- Tools that are made by someone else for a large market of users tend to be maintained and keep working, because they are constantly in use by someone.
- But a tool that was distilled on demand just for you and that you haven't used for a year or two might have rotted while you aren't using it.
- Ideally these tools can be "alive," maintaining themselves, instead of passing that maintenance burden onto the user.