That surprises me.

The approx. two decades of my career have been in what an embedded systems programmer would call "basic CRUD apps". From my perspective it's quite a bit deeper than that, as most of that time has been spent doing mostly what would be termed an SRE these days, but still - at the end of the day I've been responsible for increasingly complex frontends for databases.

The numbers 2^8 and 2^(8-1) come up all over the place.