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There is good laziness:

  - Don't Repeat Yourself
  - Don't Reinvent the Wheel
  - ...

And bad laziness:

  - I don't want to do this because I need to be careful
  - I don't need/want to understand what's going on as long as it works
  - ...

The latter is what leads to most issues/bugs.

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> I don't want to do this because I need to be careful

The topic here is more about: how reliable is the worst version of the weakest part of your team on this particular development tool? People life can be filled with terrible events that will have side effect on their vigilance at work. And even just counting on the catastrophe that just happened in production, pressure can make you trade scrupulosity for immediate operational efficiency.

I prefer tools that help me to reduce cognitive load.

I wouldn't cast 'I don't want to do this because I need to be careful' as laziness, it's just being smart/pragmatic. Take that statement in the context of home grown cryptography instead of pointes and it'll make sense. People might have different thresholds for the need to be careful.

Also, with regards to 'I don't need/want to understand what's going on as long as it works' ...isn't not needing to understand the implementation the entire point of creating abstractions?

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