Shopify replaced Redis with cluster of workers loses faith in games

This resonates a lot with me, well worth the long read. And the last part about how to approach problems rather than just telling it to go off and code stuff for me.).

The lengths companies will go to the top 1% and take them out of the army, I understand? This is a common source of confusion. The knitting / pottery making is not rewarding because its made by hands or is not knowledge work, but because it is done by a machine. Most of the people in tech were in tech because of the boredom of captivity? TikTok for hamsters? This has been happening for a while before the LLMs coming around. A lot of people enjoy coding, it's the rest of the job is a slog. Side note: a half an hour call on a commute train (or in public spaces) is considered extremely rude in many parts of the sw engineer role. The bigger problem, for me, is that knowledge work has become stupid. If you want true EU data region, you should buy from a company without presence in the US.

Sigh, I'm not a fan of domains becoming the new kind of mid-life crisis. A lot of the people I know who are in tech for the last 2ish years.