But postgres is a professional tool. I don't argue for "use enterprise bullshit". I steer clear of that garbage anyway. SWEs always forget the moat of people focusing their whole work day on a problem and having wider access to information than you do. SWEs forget that time also costs money and oftentimes it's better and cheaper just to pay someone. How much does it cost to ship an internal agent solution that runs automated E2E tests for example (independent of quality)? And how much does a normal SaaS for that cost? Devs have cost and risk attached to their work that is not properly taken into account most of the times.
There is a size of tooling thats fine. Like a small script or simple automation or cli UI or whatever. But if we're talking more complex, 95% of the times a stupid idea.
PS: of course car mechanics built their tools. I work on my car and had to build tools. A hex nut that didn't fit in the engine bay, so I had to grind it down. Normal. Cut and weld an existing tool to get into a tight spot. Normal. That's the simple CLI tool size of a tool. But no one would think about building a car lift or a welder or something.
