> I, frankly, don't trust career coders who don't have an active interest in the broader activities around coding I think that's unfair and ends up feeling a l

> I, frankly, don't trust career coders who don't have an active interest in the broader activities around coding I think that's unfair and ends up feeling a lot like signaling to me. Some of those things I'm very interested in, but there are tons of development things I'm just not excited about. I don't care about containerization trends, about kernels, not all that interested in chasing the new shiny front-end stuff. I am curious about FPGAs but don't have enough reason to go farther than that. I know devs who do not care about machine learning, about databases, whatever, but are very adept at their areas of interest. If I talk about my hobby work with robotics and microcontrollers and another dev isn't interested at all, I'm not going to judge their general skills. Expecting people to be excited about anything related to computers, hardware, general engineering isn't very realistic. It's such an amazingly broad cross-section of fields and interests.