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A bit of a back story, feel free to skip to the ASK HN. I was born in a country where the gender roles are more traditional: the man works and makes money, while the woman stays wi…

Not necessarily product. You can become a manager, or a technical lead.

This blew up way more than I expected. Thanks everyone for the comments, I read almost all of them. For the sake of not repeating myself, I would like to clarify/state some things.…

Code quality does not affect final product quality IMHO. I worked in companies with terrible code, that deployed on an over-engineered cloud provider using custom containers hacked…

Maybe I'm a lousy developer, true. But I do know now that your code does not matter. Unlike any other creative profession, what matters is the final output, and code is not the fin…

I think the idea of meritocracy has died in me. I wish I could be rewarded for my knowledge and expertise, but it seems that capitalism, as in maximizing profit, has won above ever…

Are you doing it? What business are you running? How do you find customers?

What's your plan to transition into product/management?

It's a good advice indeed. But there is a slight problem with it. Young people can learn and fight for their place in the workforce, but what is left for older people like myself? …

I think coding will stay as a hobby. You know, like there are people who still build physical stuff with wires and diodes. None of them are doing it for commercial reasons, but the…

Everything you have described, apart from on-call, I think LLMs can/will be able to do. Explaining code, reviewing code, writing code, writing test, writing tech docs. I think we a…

But the problem is that the majority of SWs are like that. You can blame them, or the industry, bust most engineers are writing code most of the time. For every Tech Lead who does …

It's a good point, and I keep hearing it often, but it has one flaw. It assumes that most engineers are in contact with the end customer, while in reality they are not. Most engine…

LLMs are becoming a part of software engineering career. The more I speak with fellow engineers, the more I hear that some of them are either using AI to help them code, or feed en…

Not, it's an approach from reality. I'm not going to slave away for an idea without getting rewarded for it. I'm not 21 years old to waste my life. I have a family and financial ob…

I am, but it doesnt pay the bills.

Thanks. Teaching does not pay as good as tech. Pity, but this is the world we live in

Nah. Unless I get a real fat equity and a nice paycheck. Most of such business offer neither, and in this case I prefer to build something of my own

I feel that most of it is pointless. I'm past the stage where I can argue with people over stupid engineering architecture decisions. It's all full of BS and ego. Most people would…

Thanks. I want to move to something else that is not coding. Coding is too taxing on my mental health, and I don't think I can do it on someones terms anymore. I am trying to build…

I don't know anymore. I tried to take a year off, was super fun, but didn't help. I think I'm just tired of writing code for corporate.

I have a family. I don't live paycheck to paycheck, but I also can't take time off.

I've been a coder for the past 15 years. I was living and believing that software engineering is a means to an end, and refused to move away from hands on positions. I gaslighted m…

This is an impressive resume and some cool things you do! I am, unfortunately, too old to start a PhD right now.

My question wasn't clear enough I'm afraid. It's not that I don't want to work, it's more about the fact that I don't want to participate in meaningless rituals. There are absolute…