New term proposed! Front-End Pharaoh: A developer who creates front-ends that require the surplus labor of an entire bronze-age kingdom to build and maintain. Someone who doesn't factor in scale of developer resources against the incidental complexity of systems they create.

@braindouche the build fails if you anger the gods and opening the project later risks an ancient curse.

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Some day I'll share the story of a legacy build that took me a week and two principal engineers to get running, and in the process of fixing the thing that needed fixed I replaced almost all of that infrastructure by moving the whole thing to WLS and writing a three-line bash script.

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