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sprobertson on March 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Grok

> engineers who poured hours of their lives into building this

Not to mar these specific engineers, but that's an empty phrase that can be said about anything ever built. It doesn't somehow make the idea or implementation good.

giancarlostoro on March 18, 2024 [–]

The phrase merely means dont just overlook something because someone else who did not even labour over the end result.

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