---
title: "React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/react-electron-and-llms-have-a-common-purpose-the-labour-arbitrage-theory-of-dev-tool-popularity-nsv4igvar
source_url: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2024-05-03T02:41:13.856Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z
tags: ["react", "llm", "electron"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 4
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# 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. Read it at the original source: <https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/>

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**@csmatthew** · 0 upvotes

> https://every.to/p/the-death-of-code-as-craft
>
> as a pairing with the above article.

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