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📣 zameermfm

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


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?

  👤 andrewrozumy Accepted Answer ✓
Scaling knowledge matters less than knowing when NOT to scale prematurely. Most side projects die from over-engineering, not from hitting real scale limits.
👤 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.