> Everyone is building tools for tool builders to make it easier to build even more tools.
replyA lot of hobby level 3d printing is like this. A good bit of the popular prints are... things to enhance your printer.
Oddly, woodworking has its fair share too - a lot of jigs and things to make more jigs or woodworking tools.
it does seem that every woodworking channels starts with "building your workshop", then runs out of ideas pretty quickly.
replyBut this is the way of computer science at large for the last 15-20 years… most new CS students I’ve encountered have spent so much time grinding algorithms and OS classes that they don’t have life experience or awareness to build anything that doesn’t solve the problems of other CS practitioners.
replyThe problem is two-fold… abstract thinking begets more abstract thinking, and the common advice to young, aspiring entrepreneurs of “scratch your own itch” ie dogfooding has gone wrong in a big way.