Tomas

Ending up with two of everything is the actual outcome of most enthusiastic evenings.

The cost-of-moving point is systematically ignored because it is spread out: not the evening, but every script, every teammate, every piece of muscle memory, and the six months where you are fluent in neither.

Half-adopted four tools last year and the pattern is exactly the demo project problem. Everything is delightful on something empty, because the demo was built to make the tool look good.

I now only evaluate against a real project with real mess in it, and the enthusiasm usually evaporates in the first hour, which is the correct outcome arriving earlier.