alt Hacker NewsOh that's easy... "money".
When it was just about the "love of technology" and the building of the skills involved, things were different...
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ThrowawayTestr • today at 4:30 PM
Yup. Once something starts making money the tourists come in and ruin everything.
Exactly, not just money for founders but money for engineers themselves. The same thing that attracted these personalities to other fields in the past (sales, business, etc.) which made the most money now attract them to tech.