That makes some sense, except you're mostly describing a division of labor where the people relying on you to fix their environments probably could do it themselves if you weren't around.
I think we agree these are not typical end users.
> Others provide support in other ways. The guy racking and stacking GPUs at a data center somewhere is doing so, at least partially, in support of some specialist wielding python to move data around.
I mean, the farmers help to feed me, too. Where do you draw the line?
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by __MatrixMan__ on Friday December 26, 2025 @07:19PM
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My point is that they are typical. I think there are legions of them. Whole classrooms at a time, whole departments at a time, people whose job is to write python according to whatever procedures came down from on high.
We don't notice them because they're not participating in conversations about which programming language might be suitable. Instead they're having conversations about whether Python is necessary or whether they can get away with a spreadsheet.
Also, in a previous job, I was responding to tickets of that kind (e.g. "why does installing this version of foo prevent the bar from running at a all?").
Others provide support in other ways. The guy racking and stacking GPUs at a data center somewhere is doing so, at least partially, in support of some specialist wielding python to move data around.
Sure plenty of specialists do their own stunts, but plenty others do not and instead have support, institutional or otherwise, for that kind of thing.