The fact you are getting downvoted to oblivion shows how fucked HN has become.

Ain't nobody gonna hire a code monkey - you are being hired based on whether or not you can reason and enable workflows via tech.

If you're only name to grace is you can write pretty Python but cannot architect at scale or care to actually understand the bigger picture of what is being built and why, you will get offshored to someone who is also using Claude Code.

If I'm working on a fullstack for a cloud security product like Wiz, I'd rather hire an average developer who deeply understands the cloud security industry versus a NodeJS doc wiz who has zero empathy or interest in learning about cloud security. There are too many of the latter and not enough of the former in the American scene now, and especially on HN.

If HNers cry about how cut-throat the American market has become, they haven't seen it in China, India, or the CEE.