[mvaliente2001]

Although I sympathise with the sentiment, that's just half of the story. Today, I can deploy a high available cluster in minutes using any cloud technology + kubernetes and my favourite web framework. True, I need to learn half dozen of frameworks, and _it feels_ like I'm not working in the core problem, but had I tried to implement an equivalent system without those tools would have taken me months, and I would end with an ad-hoc half tested non-reusable mess.

[jjav]

> Today, I can deploy a high available cluster in minutes using any cloud technology + kubernetes and my favourite web framework.

I think the point is (at least for me it is), when you do that, have you done anything new that few or nobody else has done before?

No, it's just a well worn path which thousands of organizations have done already.

[soulofmischief]

We blaze through those well-worn paths so that we can quickly get back to the interesting things. I orchestrate clusters at a high level and still get to solve difficult, stimulating problems every day.

The world of software development is immense. You can treat it like a job, or like a creative path, but to synergize both requires a lot of effort. Complaining that there aren't interesting programming jobs comes across as uninspired. Go look for them!

[jjav]

> We blaze through those well-worn paths so that we can quickly get back to the interesting things.

I could sign up for that! But what interesting things? That cluster will in nearly all companies just be used for yet another CRUD API supporting yet another social or adware platform. Yawn, please no.

If you are aware of companies doing actual intellectually creative programming anymore, please share them. I have no doubt they exist, but they are becoming way too rare.

[soulofmischief]

In the past 1.5 years, either as part of a team or by myself, I have worked on...

- a multiplayer web VR platform with hundreds of challenging problems across the entire stack

- a AI-powered information engine and ontological system with layered insights

- a multi-platform realtime communications research engine

- a web3 Patreon clone & a web3 universal messaging system

- a decentralized identity management application

- a decentralized, self-managed, open source YouTube/TikTok clone

- three game development competitions

- a novel computer vision research project for a sports company

- a graph-based end-user programmable productivity suite

- Multiple prototypes for new social media platforms

- a collection of web-based precision tools like an archiver, URL shortener, etc.

- an AI-generated blog

- an AI-generated wiki & knowledge base

- a few more things I'd have to think about

I love what I do, I love waking up to code, I love going to sleep thinking about architectural problems. I love spending all day in a deep state of problem solving.

If you have a specific kind of creative programming in mind, I can help you look around for something more fulfilling.