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Last month I was making a change to sx, our CLI. I updated a core flow, adding external catalogs as a source for sx add. Small change. Then came the testing. I knew I was messing with a core flow and wanted to be sure I hadn't broken anything. I spent about forty-five minutes setting up an isolated environment. Spinning up Docker. Fighting with tmux. Getting a clean install state I could run through the TUI a few times. Forty-five minutes of my afternoon that produced zero code. I complained in Slack.