My cheeky answer:
> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
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Re: Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
#82Wait until it breaks one day and no one can understand it enough to fix it !!!
Re: Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
#83The way I look at it is: there are more tools in the toolbox than ever before. Which makes our judgement (the thing they really pay us for) even more important. Kubernetes, for example, is a specific solution to a specific problem. The solution is complex but so is the problem. If k8s give you the right trade-offs for your situation, then it’s not busy work. Of course, there are plenty of project where judgement Is t…
Promotion based architecture is self fulfilling prophecy at least in BI/ data world. I see everybody around me moving to cloud, without really good explanation why. Only reasonable thing I can see as an pattern is that cloud experience on top of data things gets paid 30% more. It made me consider cloud a lot. I was considering switching to cloud, just so I can put in my CV "experience with migration to cloud". For ne…
There are non-IT perspectives on this as well.
My company offers two deployment scenarios: host it yourself and cloud hosted (SaaS). Many of our customers choose the latter because their internal IT systems require more process, and they just want to get something up and running.
Re: Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
#84The reason for this is Resume Driven Development and promos for flashy projects. Management in tech companies is completely broken.
Re: Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
#85The opportunity is to locate experienced software engineers from before this nonsense, and create new, efficient software that runs circles around the new modern complexity. My last employer did this: a facial recognition developer in the enterprise space; where every competitor in the industry has a server stack for their solution, we had a single integrated application replacing the entire competitor stack, and the…
good luck selling something inexpensive to enterprises
department heads need a reason for big budgets
Re: Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
#86Welcome to senior.
Re: Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
#87My thoughts: quit working at tech companies. There are tons of small a medium sized companies that have business outside of the tech industry that need software development done. Many of them will choose to have it outsourced, but many of them don't. In the last 10 years of my 20-year career, only 1.5 of them were at a tech company (3 years ago), and they were definitely the worst.
I work at a foreign language instruction firm. I'm making a virtual reality training environment for them. It's the best job I've ever had. I don't have anyone micromanaging my work, because nobody understands my work. I barely understand their work, and that's ok. We understand that about each other and we actually collaborate.
In the last 3 years I've not once been yelled at, talked down to, berated, cajoled, pressured into working overtime, any of it. I've not seen it happen to anyone else, either. I have an office of my own. I can work from home whenever I want. People just trust me to be an adult and do my work and it's the greatest thing ever: basic human decency.
Re: Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
#88I'll take the devil's advocate:
* All these new tools, they give us options, no? Use the right tool for the job, the ability to switch if something becomes old/unmaintained.
* Is this actual complexity or perceived complexity given your experience? The node ecosystem looked very complex for me (someone coming from Python) until I actually got into it. Now it seems pretty run-of-the-mill.
* Is k8s really all that hard? Build a container and you don't have to worry about provisioning it and deploying it again.
There may be good reasons to use some of the technologies you pointed out. And that's a strong may because I can easily come up with arguments in the other direction in addition to yours. I say all this to mean you just shouldn't dismiss it because it seems hard. It may be and it may not be, and if it is it may still be worth your time if the payoff is great enough. There you have to do the legwork to figure that out.
Re: Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
#89This is why i moved to data science so i can focus more on solving problems than picking frameworks and libraries. We are not completely immune to this problem, but by and large the tooling ecosystem is much smaller and the focus is on problem solving and not the tech stack.
Re: Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?
#90Nim is easy to use but performance. I'm releasing a (web) development platform for it this month. Just getting the code ready.
I don't believe the issue being addressed is a lack of web development platforms here.
The author mentioned CRUD with Rust, which sounds like they think Rust is overkill for CRUD.