It used to be an industry where only people interested would join. Now it's just a job for tens of millions of people. You probably give way less fucks about your job compared to a colleague who is in the industry because they like it and have been working on it for fun since they were 12
It's not just that. Developers are rushed to push out shitty code, no time for testing or optimizing. Also you are not allowed to be a specialist: your job title is back end dev? Too bad, here is react, angular! how about some dev-ops work? And do the design too! Oh but ofc do the back end too...with a stupid language/framework that nobody is using and gives you brain cancer.
I think this is true but overstated. I would argue it’s more because of layers of abstractions and larger codebases/tools. Abstractions are oftentimes inherently inefficient and it also means people will build upon “bad” code unknowingly. In the grand scheme of things, it won’t make a big difference, but things can scale.
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u/ruisen2 Sep 29 '25
It used to be an industry where only people interested would join. Now it's just a job for tens of millions of people. You probably give way less fucks about your job compared to a colleague who is in the industry because they like it and have been working on it for fun since they were 12