I'm growing weary of the "culture fit"-obsessed non-technical leadership calling the shots, the headhunters placing you in mismatched positions, the creeping boot camp Taylorism, the endless turf wars disguised as academic discussions about tech strategies that ultimately get resolved by pulling rank based on arbitrary titles, being forced to use someone else's incomplete implementation of a tech stack selected exclusively from how many Github follows it has, the endless competition, and fad-driven Agile flavors where all the wrong people are held accountable for lost productivity, assuming accountability is even being held at all.
Is there any job that isn't exclusively attracting programmers, but a programmer can have a high impact on business performance and pays about as much as one would expect from a programming gig? Like some small business that needs a "architect hacker" to streamline parts of the company for growth?
Just anything to get me out of the bland, sterile, high-school-esque contemporary programming culture. It's absolutely disgusting. I want to be a hero in a small pond, not an interchangable cog who writes code based on a top-heavy spec that didn't consult me or QA or any tech people at all until the deliverable date was already established.