I don’t work on web apps at all. Most of my time goes into security tooling and analysis pipelines. A lot of it is closer to systems work than application devel

I don’t work on web apps at all. Most of my time goes into security tooling and analysis pipelines. A lot of it is closer to systems work than application development: parsing large datasets, automating analysis, dealing with flaky inputs, and building things that are mostly run headless. The feedback loop is slower than web work, but the problems tend to be deeper and longer-lived. You spend less time on UX and more time thinking about correctness, edge cases, and failure modes. I suspect there are many people here doing similar non-web work, it’s just less visible because there’s no UI to screenshot or product to demo.