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title: "How the Community Turned Into a SaaS Commercial"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-the-community-turned-into-a-saas-commercial-z3wxpw6qt
source_url: https://luminousmen.com/post/how-the-community-turned-into-a-saas-commercial
type: article
source: "iamluminousmen"
published: 2026-05-24T07:42:51.869Z
updated: 2026-05-24T08:13:23.105Z
tags: ["data-engineering"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# How the Community Turned Into a SaaS Commercial

**[iamluminousmen](https://daily.dev/sources/luminousmen)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A data engineer reflects on how tech communities — especially around data engineering — have shifted from genuine problem-solving discussions to SaaS pitches and AI-generated content. The post laments the loss of authentic, messy engineering conversations, criticizes tool fatigue from 500+ 'modern data' tools, and warns about knowledge becoming gated behind paywalls. It closes with a call for engineers to be human, share real stories, and embrace boring-but-working solutions over performative tech stacks.

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