So this author loves the easy part (writing code), hates the hard part (reading and reviewing), and lacks so much self awareness that he is going to lecture people on skill atrophy?
If you want to be an artist be an artist, that's fine, don't confuse artististry with engineering.
I write art code for myself, I engineer code professionally.
The author wraps with a false dichotomy that uses emotionally loaded language at the end: "You Believe We have Entered a New Post-Work Era, and Trust the Corporations to Shepherd Us Into It". I mean, what? Why can't I think it's quickly becoming a new era _and_ not trust corporations? Why does the author take that idea off the table? Is this logic or rhetoric? Who is this author trying to convince?
SWE life has always had smatterings of weird gatekeeping, self identities wrapped up in external tooling or paradigms, fragile egos, general misanthropy, post-hoc rationalization, etc. but... man watching the progressions of the crash outs these last few years has been wild.
In my day job, I use best practices. If I'm changing a SQL database, I write database migrations.
In my hobby coding? I will never write a database migration. You couldn't force me to at gunpoint. I just hate them, aesthetically. I will come up with the most elaborate and fragile solutions to avoid writing them. It's part of the fun.
If you want to be an artist be an artist, that's fine, don't confuse artististry with engineering.
I write art code for myself, I engineer code professionally.
The author wraps with a false dichotomy that uses emotionally loaded language at the end: "You Believe We have Entered a New Post-Work Era, and Trust the Corporations to Shepherd Us Into It". I mean, what? Why can't I think it's quickly becoming a new era _and_ not trust corporations? Why does the author take that idea off the table? Is this logic or rhetoric? Who is this author trying to convince?
SWE life has always had smatterings of weird gatekeeping, self identities wrapped up in external tooling or paradigms, fragile egos, general misanthropy, post-hoc rationalization, etc. but... man watching the progressions of the crash outs these last few years has been wild.