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The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go

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Re: The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go

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Your company is laying people off because they need something to do. They’re goalless in the extreme and relying on big talk and big action about the latest fad. You don’t have leaders, you have owners.

You must look around and see the lack of men, and force yourself to become one.

Re: The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go

#6

If you have been coding for 8 years and don't have marketable skills you are either naive/insecure or doing something very very wrong. In either case, this job is clearly not healthy for you in several different ways

I've been doing full-stack Dev (mostly Django though I foolishly had a brief moment where I kinda thought Flask was okay then fell for the same dumb thing briefly with FastAPI) for 20+ years and don't feel marketable.

I went from jQuery to a brief dalliance with Angular to HTMX+_HyperScript. Everyone wants full stack Devs to use react and struggle eternally with insane dependency trees and challenging client side state management.

I like to build things that can be maintained in perpetuity by small teams.

So I'm not very marketable.

Re: The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go

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post #6

If you have been coding for 8 years and don't have marketable skills you are either naive/insecure or doing something very very wrong. In either case, this job is clearly not healthy for you in several different ways

I've been doing full-stack Dev (mostly Django though I foolishly had a brief moment where I kinda thought Flask was okay then fell for the same dumb thing briefly with FastAPI) for 20+ years and don't feel marketable. I went from jQuery to a brief dalliance with Angular to HTMX+_HyperScript. Everyone wants full stack Devs to use react and struggle eternally with insane dependency trees and challenging client side sta…

Write a script that tidies up and fixes everything in a repo.

Re: The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go

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post #6

If you have been coding for 8 years and don't have marketable skills you are either naive/insecure or doing something very very wrong. In either case, this job is clearly not healthy for you in several different ways

I've been doing full-stack Dev (mostly Django though I foolishly had a brief moment where I kinda thought Flask was okay then fell for the same dumb thing briefly with FastAPI) for 20+ years and don't feel marketable. I went from jQuery to a brief dalliance with Angular to HTMX+_HyperScript. Everyone wants full stack Devs to use react and struggle eternally with insane dependency trees and challenging client side sta…

Dude. You are marketable as fuck.

Don’t live in the hype. Not everyone is drinking the ai cool-aid bottoms up.

What do you mean by fastapi being a mistake ?

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