Stuff is getting done. Every day. By the legions of coders who do not work in SV, who churn out boring LOB CRUD apps in corporations across the world, day after day. The hourly consultant working for gigantor IT firms, one 6 month coding gig at a time, doing the same thing as last time. The ones whose jobs many HN users would never want, but who are living their lives just fine going to work and slinging some code.
HN shows a slice of the industry. And people caught in the startup and FAANG worlds sometimes forget that is all it is - a slice. An interesting slice where people do creative things and sometimes make bank doing it, but just a slice nonetheless.
So it is fine that this slice of the industry keeps trying new things - that is how innovation happens, and over the long run it benefits the large silent mass of software folks who are out there just doing their jobs.
Stuff is getting done. Every day. By the legions of coders who do not work in SV, who churn out boring LOB CRUD apps in corporations across the world, day after day. The hourly consultant working for gigantor IT firms, one 6 month coding gig at a time, doing the same thing as last time. The ones whose jobs many HN users would never want, but who are living their lives just fine going to work and slinging some code.
HN shows a slice of the industry. And people caught in the startup and FAANG worlds sometimes forget that is all it is - a slice. An interesting slice where people do creative things and sometimes make bank doing it, but just a slice nonetheless.
So it is fine that this slice of the industry keeps trying new things - that is how innovation happens, and over the long run it benefits the large silent mass of software folks who are out there just doing their jobs.