alt Hacker NewsI don't think HN has been frequented by startup engineers with leadership responsibilities in any density in a long time. It's very obvious to me reading a lot of the comments here that most folks are ICs somewhere in a large, bureaucratic software organization. That's why there's so much BOFH style commentary here these days.
(For readers, I don't think there's anything wrong with that but it just means that certain perspectives are overrepresented here that may not be more reflective of the broader industry.)
That's what I've come to realize. For most of the commentators here "greenfield" means typing in 'npm init', for me it usually means doing three different roles in order to iterate as fast as possible on the product to find your market, then figuring out how to scale it to the new users you've started acquiring.
The idea that this is means "you don’t learn the actually valuable lessons" is completely baffling to me.
Most people I've know with founding engineer experience or similar leave not because it's not challenging, but because it's exhausting.
Increasingly I've realized that the HN community and I are not even speaking the same language.