<story><title>Leetcode Considered Harmful</title><url>https://www.fullcontextdevelopment.com/qb/leetcode-considered-harmful</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whateveracct</author><text>MANGA has built (or even contributed to in passing) basically 0 of the tools I use in production...</text></item><item><author>moomoo11</author><text>Honestly I think leetcode should be reserved for the jobs where you build the Lego bricks (the MANGAs).&lt;p&gt;Anywhere else where you use the Lego bricks to build some applications shouldn’t really use leetcode.&lt;p&gt;If you’re a good product engineer and you enjoy building good products, maybe you should start a company to build good products that solve problems for other people. Let the engineers who enjoy building the bricks do leetcode in peace so that we have solid pieces to build good software.&lt;p&gt;I’m doing the latter and trying to build a company. I realized I much prefer to build products that customers love, and I want to build useful software for people. I’m not that interested in low level tinkering and re-inventing the wheel all the time.&lt;p&gt;Coexistence is possible!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greenpeas</author><text>The Chrome browser and various protocols (SPDY&amp;#x2F;HTTP2 and others though I need to do some research to know exactly which ones). They&amp;#x27;ve also invested a lot in optimizing the JS engine. The Go language, so indirectly contributed to any tool built in Go.</text></comment>
<story><title>Leetcode Considered Harmful</title><url>https://www.fullcontextdevelopment.com/qb/leetcode-considered-harmful</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whateveracct</author><text>MANGA has built (or even contributed to in passing) basically 0 of the tools I use in production...</text></item><item><author>moomoo11</author><text>Honestly I think leetcode should be reserved for the jobs where you build the Lego bricks (the MANGAs).&lt;p&gt;Anywhere else where you use the Lego bricks to build some applications shouldn’t really use leetcode.&lt;p&gt;If you’re a good product engineer and you enjoy building good products, maybe you should start a company to build good products that solve problems for other people. Let the engineers who enjoy building the bricks do leetcode in peace so that we have solid pieces to build good software.&lt;p&gt;I’m doing the latter and trying to build a company. I realized I much prefer to build products that customers love, and I want to build useful software for people. I’m not that interested in low level tinkering and re-inventing the wheel all the time.&lt;p&gt;Coexistence is possible!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pengaru</author><text>&amp;gt;  MANGA has built (or even contributed to in passing) basically 0 of the tools I use in production...&lt;p&gt;Is the linux kernel a tool you use in production?</text></comment>