But wait, I forgot to include the giant dependencies we rely on, like Django or Postgres. All boxes shrink by another order of magnitude revealing these whale sized new ones.
Finally, I add in Python and Linux themselves. Our original code has shrunk to the size of shoeboxes resting on mountains, invisibly small.
Instead of paying for the colossal amount of work to create those things we rely on, we've been gifted them for free. It's ok that we've taken them…