Love this post. Surprisingly controversial; it hasn't made me very many engineering friends.

It's bad for building your resume. Managers and employees are rewarded for popular thing. Popularity is mostly a function of novelty. So the (social and therefore economic) incentive structure is inversely correlated with choosing boring technology.

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abirch 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I see it as analogous to people are frequently rewarded for putting out the fire instead of preventing the fire.

	▲	andai 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've been noticing this as a solo dev. I need to put lots of work into infra and security, and all I get for it is... the thing not blowing up (hopefully!). The work is invisible, and impossible to "show off", so it's a bit unrewarding and demoralizing. But hey, someone needs to do it!

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devin 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Try to explain that part of an imagined "Agentic AI Everything" product being built would be cheaper and more efficient as a simple function call. Good luck!

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simonw 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, it's pretty unpopular among people who like to try out new technology on every given project.

I've found it extremely useful over the years, personally.