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I guess there are different kinds of coding jobs. From my experience, very small teams or ideally freelance, when you're not dealing with the general corporate idiocy/security/agile/co-workers ideas on how to code/gigantic legacy codebase/office politics/etc and "only" have to fight technology, can be more peaceful. Also, technology stacks probably differ in terms of sanity, from completely bonkers (like the Hadoop/Big Data I'm currently in) to something fairly logical (like embedded maybe?).