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It is 2016. Development work is pretty much copy and paste instead of rocket science. Based on this article http://www.recode.net/2016/6/8/11883518/app-boom-over-snapch..., the whole app ecosystem is dying, and less and less people are going to explore new apps. In the short future, people will stop paying the insane amount of money to developers to build the apps nobody is using.

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> Development work is pretty much copy and paste

You don't create software, do you?

For app development, the hard part has already been done through well-written lib, and the developers mainly write some trivial business logic to put these components together.

Nope, you definitely do not create software.

You do not think of this way because you do not write modular code. How hard to use a react component in a application?

When instagram is made there was no library of making actual logic. You should not rely on libraries if you want to make instagram you should rely on people who can make that kind of libraries

I would hope you're not developing, much less shipping software that relies on you copying and pasting.

I would be "impressed" with your productivity if you write an authentication, message and notification system from scratch over twice, and each time takes over 40 hours.

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