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Not the best metaphor, artisan cheese is something highly sought after. Go to France, there's a lot better cheese than Kraft singles.

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I don't need to go that far, living in Switzerland. I don't know why you'd assume I'm in the US, or somehow that I regard Kraft as great cheese.

It's called a joke, but surely you recognise that there's an enormous market for artisanal cheese?

Even Swiss Cheese with artisanal holes.

We need enough slop to create that market.

If you already had a hand crafted codebase, a ton of miles on it, no real issue for a long time and customers who value some metric of quality then it might be worth crafting things by hand — if only for the bragging.

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