There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all — Peter Drucker

Despite what the godfather of management says, what the engineers want to talk about is:

• Programming languages
• AI
• Cloud providers
• UI Libraries
• APIs
• DevOps
• Architecture patterns
• Databases

What the customer doesn’t care about: (see above).

The things in the list don’t even matter! They’re fungible. Given three mainstream choices for programming language, AI, cloud, etc., literally any combination of them is sufficient.

The tech isn’t the thing, the Thing is the thing.