The Tech Industry is Exhausted

If you've been monitoring the Hacker News homepage today, you've probably noticed a collective sigh of exhaustion from the developer community.

We are currently witnessing two massive, parallel debates:

The DB Simplification Trend: "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows" is trending at the top of the homepage, proving that developers are desperately trying to escape the complexity of heavy cloud database clustering [obel1].

The Frontend Crisis: "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend's lost decade?" is sparking furious debates. We are drowning in AI-generated "slop" and 50MB JavaScript bundles just to render basic application states.

We have over-engineered the modern web to the point of functional absurdity.…