I strongly agree with the architecture piece. Seeing the difference in complexity between a distributed "monolith" and an actual one makes me wonder how seriou

I strongly agree with the architecture piece. Seeing the difference in complexity between a distributed "monolith" and an actual one makes me wonder how serious some of us are about serving the customer. The speed with which you can build a rails or PHP app makes everything proposed since 2016 seem kind of pointless from a business standpoint. Many SaaS B2B products could be refactored into a single powershell/bash script. It can take a very firm hand to guide a team away from the shiny distractions. There is no way in hell an obsequious AI contraption will be able to fill this role. I know for a fact the LLMs are guiding developers towards more complexity because I have to constantly prompt things like "do not use 3rd party dependencies" and "demonstrate using pseudocode first" to avoid getting sucked into npm Narnia.