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What I hate about the industry is politics, short-term thinking, selfishness, dogmatism and other forms of irrationality.

If you care about your craft, spend time learning and cultivating your skills and want to do the right thing, once you try to put things into practice you'll find a bunch of people along the way that hate programming and don't care about quality.

You will also find people that will try hard to game the system to inflate their productivity metrics at the expense of ruining long term collective productivity by incurring massive tech debt. They make the coding experience draining.

You'll know who they are when you try to talk with them about technology and they'll start avoiding you and cluster around people that talk about sports, cars, travel, wine or some other thing that has nothing to do with tech.

If all those people suddenly decided to go do something else the industry would be so much better.



Yea I hate watching all the political shit. Like people taking screen shots of themselves in virtual meetings smiling and laughing to like message to higher ups "how good they work together" when really they are huge assholes lol.


I don't think this is "the industry" i.e. Software, it is "industry". The exact same stuff exists in all kinds of companies.




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