Big Split

In a random Hacker News thread I was reading I spotted this:

I'm increasingly coming to the view that there is a big split among "software developers" and AI is exacerbating it. There's an (increasingly small) group of software developers who don't like "magic" and want to understand where their code is running and what it's doing. These developers gravitate toward open source solutions like Kubernetes, and often just want to rent a VPS or at most a managed K8s solution. The other group (increasingly large) just wants to git push and be done with it, and they're willing to spend a lot of (usually their employer's) money to have that experience. They don't want to have to understand DNS, linux, or anything else beyond whatever framework they are using.

I completely agree that this is a thing. What I've come to realise more and more lately is that you should for the most part try to be part of the first group. You shouldn't trust the magic.

Some examples I'm pretty strong on now include:

No ORMs, just write SQL

Understand Linux and nginx, you should rent a VPS and run your code on it

I'm less familiar with Kubernetes so I can't really formulate a strong argument either way for that.