>Or perhaps we're all part of both groups.
this feels right to me. application development and platform development are both software development tasks, and lots of software devs do both. i like working on platform-level stuff, and i like building applications. but i like there to be a good distinction between the two, and when i'm working on application-level stuff, i don't want to have to think about the platform.
services like fly.io do a good job of hiding all the platform level work and just giving you a place to deploy your application to, so when they start exposing tools like GPUs that are more about building platforms than building applications, it's messy.
I want to understand LLMs. I want to understand my compiler, my gc, my type system, my distributed systems.
On the other hand, I don't really care about K8s or anything else, as long as I have something that works. Just let me `git push` and focus on making great things elsewhere.