Matt Brown on Substack

[Matt Brown]

I have to disagree with your lens of the week. Preference and expertise are not the same. Just because I like Rust and monorepos doesn’t mean that I actually have significant experience with them and can articulate the pros and cons. Often I find the opposite with the generalists. They have opinions based on experience and are able to adapt those experiences to other situations. Given a green field, they know what has worked in the past and are able to use that as a starting point, but that doesn’t mea that they are an expert. That’s a different skill