[awelkie]

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote:

"À mesure que le principe de la division du travail reçoit une application plus complète, l’ouvrier devient plus faible, plus borné et plus dépendant. L’art fait des progrès, l’artisan rétrograde."

Or roughly "In a system of division of labor, the work improves but the worker suffers".

I feel like, as an industry, we've settled on a way of working that probably does produce quality software faster and more reliably, but it takes a toll on the engineers.