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This... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/react-electron-and-llms-have-a-common-purpose-the-labour-arbitrage-theory-of-dev-tool-popularity-nsv4igvar og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NsV4IGVAR.png og:image:alt: React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 9 min read · 4 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The labour arbitrage theory suggests that the long-term popularity of software development tools is proportional to how much they enable labour arbitrage. This theory explains why certain tools and frameworks gain more funding and adoption from management despite their technical deficiencies. The post explores the concept of labour arbitrage in relation to popular technologies like MongoDB, React, and Electron, and discusses why these technologies may be objectively worse than alternatives. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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