HN – Ask HN: Is this type of person rare?

In programming and software, as LLMs become increasingly common, I'm seeing a lot more of the "I don't care how a software product is built, just give me the result" attitude, and then there are people who say they care more about the creativity, the ingenuity, the craft of reaching a specific result. For them, the journey itself is the reward, not the destination.

So is this type of person rare in the wild? Fast food's dominance over home cooking suggests people naturally tend to outsource work and just consume the result — which would mean the type I'm describing is indeed rare. But I feel like engineering is a much more filtered space; someone who wants to be an engineer is fundamentally different from a guy who just wants a household chore fixed.

If this type is rare, what caused it?

Ask HN: Is this type of person rare?

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