Traditionally, software engineers are smart people

Source for this? After years in the industry, I believe otherwise at this point.

There are plenty of people with high INT and low WIS. As the old joke goes, intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in a fruit salad.

INT is knowing how to use Kubernetes, WIS is knowing when not to?

I wonder if the intersection of HTMX and Kubernetes users is empty or not :). I wouldn't be surprised (and it'd be great!) if it is.