@gnyman @mttaggart @hrbrmstr @tychotithonus @jerry

While you're right, these labor saving practices are externalizing a lot of costs the others get burdened with. I'm surprised the companies hosting these software repos continue to bear the hosting costs for free, and I worry about the potential for enshittification if those companies end up in hard times and can't justify hosting stuff for free anymore. What happens if Microsoft's big bets on GenAI fail, their projected revenue tanks, and they start looking at GitHub and NPM as unjustifiable costs (exacerbated by lazy software build practices) that they either need to tap for revenue or shed?

@hrbrmstr @tychotithonus @jerry I'll admit that my experience with container tech isn't super deep, but don't most container systems heavily cache for exactly this reason? Granted, there are plenty of situations where the cache gets invalidated, like changes up near the top of Docker files IIRC.