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Discussion on: What's your attitude towards hype?

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There's a paradox between what gets people excited, and what just works. Hype is in techs that are new (or more often re:newed) and hold promise. This primes users (including in the workplace) to put in much effort, and often the effort is required because new stuff is also not stable.
Getting to "just works" is more incremental. Dot net in 2020 just works; it's also cross platform and such, but will never get the hype we saw around Java.
If you're 90% into hype you are running a broken concept car and you don't have a tool suite. But if you invest 0% in cool things your dev-x (and resume/startup/business) have no oomph.