Does building internal tools decrease shared fluency of industry-standard tools?
adamho · x · 2026-08-28
The post raises a thought-provoking question: as companies build large amounts of custom internal tools, will it decrease the shared fluency and consensus around industry-standard tools like Photoshop or Figma? This touches on the impact of the shift towards personalized, in-house software development paradigms in the AI era on the general software ecosystem.
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