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Ask HN: Devs who knows how to scale will have the last laugh in future dev?

2 points by zameermfm ↗ HN
Isn't it really obvious at this point in software engineering world, however the dev trend goes, AI replacing engineers or AI coexist with minimal engineers or automation slowly swallows bottom up in the dev hierarchy,

the engineers who knows servers, networking, scaling (Load, DB), distributed computing, hardware level competencies, Ops, Extensive Infra knowledge will have the ultimate last laugh in all this?

Like, it will be the last remaining frontier where battles will slowly cease to exist?

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rvz
> ...the engineers who knows servers, networking, scaling (Load, DB), distributed computing, hardware level competencies, Ops, Extensive Infra knowledge will have the ultimate last laugh in all this?

Yes. Everything needs to be constantly maintained and you need to fix any outage as it happens immediately.

Let's just say do not be anywhere near where the vibe coders are having the most fun which is anything front-end.

zameermfm
Yes, front end is indeed in the automation territory. Artisanal works aside, common patterns usually serves peoples needs, so vibe coded front end will in fact work.
[dead] andrewrozumy
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zameermfm
True, but in a longer term? where the curve filters out the side projects which arent viable and others will make it to a inevitable point of scaling?
nenxk
I have a different experience personally quite a few of my side projects end up being put on the back burner after a few days of code when I realize I should’ve over engineered and I’m going to have to spend some time refactoring/reengineering if I want to continue though I also have a lot of scope creep where I’ll start with one idea in mind get there or near there and then want to start adding stuff or changing the end product