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Rather than a tool like Copilot, which does look very interesting, I'd be curious to see the effect of using evergreen (self-updating) off-the-shelf free open-source components.

Imagine if you get get an app that uses `http-rest-api` and `http-www-crud` with `http-www-multifactor` and `http-rest-api-license-key` and you could automatically be using the latest rest API, the latest CRUD framework, the latest multifactor/whatever framework (which you'd probably pin to some standard like YubiKey so user tokens don't get invalidated regularly). The actual reference implementation could be done in pseudocode even, and ported to many languages (ok this is getting too meta). You could throw together a professional quality application in a few lines of package management. And if someone finds a bug in the code, it gets updated, and next time a release is cut you'll pull it down automatically and deploys itself.



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