> [speaking about system engineering] [...] some end up enjoying it and switching to systems engineering entirely. They’re then mostly freed from other tasks such as the expectation to “fix something on the frontend”
wipes laughing tears yeah, no. If you control the entire stack, people who are responsible for each part of the stack are writing you emails, all day, every day. Who patches the ansible-playbooks when changes in the frontend need to be made ad hoc? Or implements ad-hoc-fixes while the actual frontend-team patches their repo? I can just speak from my experience at a comparatively big player in the EU, so this might be different at FAANG-level corporations, but is that the business reality of the average medium reader? I doubt it.
(edit: also, the author spelled haskell with just one l every time)
