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I’m working on my passion project, a mobility focused fitness app (bendy.fit), and searching for work that doesn’t feel morally repugnant!
What an utterly privileged life we lead when we can just decide to quit our jobs because things are getting too “absurd”.
Maybe this time management will learn its lesson but probably not.
I quit last September and have been doing sporadic freelancing and intensely working on personal projects. It was already clear to me last summer that the agentic stuff was kind of the final nail in the coffin of a "normal" software dev shop. All the routine of typical SCRUM-based etc activity was degrading even further from ritual and theater into a pointless charade or comedy, or as you say, absurdity. Dueling LLMs…
Not long ago I had a dream about becoming a butcher, and so then I bought half a cow with a friend and after a week trying to cut it out in pieces I realised maybe I was too old to make the move... so im still a programmer.
What inspired you to attempt pursuing butchery?
Of course, then I just grew up and you just get on with things...
Already did. Hated working with AI. Will try to start a business one day where I can code how I like it. Currently not doing anything IT related. Just went on a bike ride.
Sadly I'm tightly mortgaged and in a very high cost of living area in the US.
My plan is to move to Europe so I can cut my cost of living in half, not stress over health care, and eat real food instead of fake American chemicals. Need a few more years ..
Not quitting just yet, but the culture is super toxic lately. Managers will promise things that are not feasible, set absurd deadlines, and then let engineers take the fall if they don't meet those deadlines. When engineers come up with good ideas, managers will say it's a bad idea, but then run away with the idea and take the credit. I wake up every day wondering if I should quiet quit or go for a clean exit.
I was working at an AI startup, and I saw our CTO lie in a demo to potential customers. I know that startups sometimes have a "fake it till you make it" mindset, but the guy straight up used a product from another company, presented it as our company's product, and faked numbers. I saw him completely misrepresent the capabilities of our product several times. Unethical and most likely illegal, I felt super disappoint…
I hope you give startups another go if that sounds good to you, and as you say, it sounds like you will be able to see the things you dont want at least. Good luck.
Im close to stopping. Founder of a deeptech/hardware startup in a difficult sector and we are struggling to get our tech validated (latest datapoint are no improvement over the current practice). While i believe with sufficient time it can be proven and improved, that crosses into the realm of academia and not entrepeneurship. So yeah motivation is quite low at the moment, and im not sure if to push-on or accept fail…
If it’s new tech or bust, build the most honest techno-economic model you can and use that to make your go/no-go decision.