> Perhaps this is the endgame of resume-driven development: cargo culted complexity and everyone using the same tech for similar-ish problems and then wondering why it’s so hard to stand out from both a product and an employee perspective.
Spot on. Tech is a fashion industry and most people just follow trends. I still sometimes wonder if people are playing the elaborate long-term resume-optimisation game, or if they don't value simplicity highly enough to optimise for it, because the downsides are externalised.
Spot on. Tech is a fashion industry and most people just follow trends. I still sometimes wonder if people are playing the elaborate long-term resume-optimisation game, or if they don't value simplicity highly enough to optimise for it, because the downsides are externalised.