To Own The Libs: A Corporate Tragedy

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To Own The Libs: A Corporate Tragedy
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The corporate mantra that haunts every developer's nightmares. Some exec heard "dependencies are risky" once at a golf course and suddenly your team is reinventing perfectly good wheels because "we need to own the libs." Meanwhile, the same company will happily outsource their entire infrastructure to AWS without blinking. The irony burns hotter than my CPU after running npm install.

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