AI dev tools are making a classic build-vs-buy mistake more common
mgill25 · x · 2026-07-28
Experienced engineering managers say a familiar pattern is getting worse with AI dev tools: a new engineer criticizes a vendor tool, quickly builds an internal replacement with vibe coding, and then the team discovers that maintaining it steals bandwidth from real work.
The cited update says that exact thing happened here: the team went back to Linear because the internal tool they built was consuming too much effort to keep alive.
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