What does "XYZ developer" mean?

In general, I don’t like the notion of “I’m an XYZ developer”. I write code in C#, Python, TypeScript, C, Zig, Rust, and anything else that I feel like. Most of the production code I write is in C#, but I don’t like the tag of “I’m a C# dev”. It is… a very limiting term. Having said that, I started writing C# code over 25 years ago. I got started during the .NET alpha days, around 2001, I think. Given that, I have a lot of experience with C# & .NET, all the way to contributing code to .NET. I want to talk a bit about the meaning of having that kind of knowledge in a particular platform, especially when we have expert models. After all, we can assume that the AI knows the platform, so you just need to tell it what to build, no?Let’s talk a bit about performance and the depth of knowledge you need to get great results with it. I have an event loop where I’m processing events. I care about processing them as fast as possible. I do that by grabbing a batch of items from a queue,…

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