[attendant3446]

For me it's very similar, I was in dev, now I'm in ops and I can easily switch back. But to think that all good programmers can do infra is a falsehood.

I've met so many developers who don't even know how computers really work. They're good at a particular tech stack and do their job very well, but they can't do much else. Let alone infra.

Personally, I agree that it's two different mindsets, but sometimes they can overlap.