what i enjoy the most is every "AI will replace engineers" article is written by an employee working at an AI company with testimonials from other people also working at AI companies
The way things usually gain traction is when a big tech company has success experimenting with it. it happened with node way back and happening with rust now.
the fact we haven't heard much about was use is probably because it isnt as valuable as we think, or no one has played around with it yet to find out
It sounds like the author and their team were more comfortable with node.js than python. they acknowledge fastapi was a good alternative that could solve their issues and allow some code reuse, but decided not to because they just wanted to use node.
the gist of this blog post is this company knew and understood node better than python, so they migrated to what they knew.
The idea is to keep your mind clear on what the priority is. If you didn't write many lines of code but still solved problems, you did your job. The two aren't mutually exclusive, but it helps in prioritization
I mean I can subscribe to 5 different streaming services and pay $50-60/mo, and how far away are we from having a service that provides a collection of streaming services (i.e. cable TV).
The problem that's happening lately is that streaming services were a way to get away from the expensiveness of cable, but now we're returning the the exact same problem we had then.
