Developers

A couple of weeks back, I found myself in a discussion about ‘dark matter developers’ - a term coined by Scott Hanselman to describe the vast majority of developers who, like dark matter in physics, we know exist but rarely see or interact with online. The discussion of these developers started because the Cursor AI team were shocked to find that 80% of their users are on Windows with Laurie Voss tweeting about the episode: “Every so often Silicon Valley devs re-discover that the vast majority of programmers use Windows and are re-surprised.” I responded noting how minds are blown when people realise most developers don’t work at tech companies but in traditional company IT departments. ...