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I might put those numbers at like 125 and 140, but your point is taken that there’s a fine line between reality and elitism, and I possibly strayed across it.

There is in fact a difference between chasing the latest fad in serving HTTP requests and trying to do serious computation, but it’s also so much masturbation if nothing useful is getting built.

I was leaning a little heavily into one side of the argument because the other side doesn’t seem to lack for advocates.



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