Dev culture shift: pre-AI talks were all Kafka clusters, now it's actually fun
yenkel · x · 2026-10-18
yenkel quips that before AI, backend/infra dev talks and blog posts were all about event streaming and Kafka clusters — and the current AI era is far more fun. The quoted post from GergelyOrosz notes a frontend dev used to yearly tech churn finds AI's pace unremarkable but is tired enough to consider retiring, while some early-retired engineers have come back because the field finally looks exciting again.
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