My takeaway was that "software developer" is not a very useful job description anymore. CRUD, web dev, games, HPC, embedded and other fields require vastly different skill sets. Changing between these fields can be like starting your first job out of college, learning to use not just different tools but also focusing on very different priorities.
("$language developer" is only slightly more useful, especially for languages which are used across many different fields such as Python (web dev and science), C# (web dev and games), C (games and embedded), etc.)
The article revolves around the continuum from building everything yourself to importing a third party library whenever it can speed up delivering the current feature just a little bit. It's pretty clear by now that the many software development fields fall into different parts of that continuum.
("$language developer" is only slightly more useful, especially for languages which are used across many different fields such as Python (web dev and science), C# (web dev and games), C (games and embedded), etc.)
The article revolves around the continuum from building everything yourself to importing a third party library whenever it can speed up delivering the current feature just a little bit. It's pretty clear by now that the many software development fields fall into different parts of that continuum.