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by anonreeeeplor 1221 days ago
It became completely thankless to be a programmer. I don’t know if it was something about having the right balance of being in high demand plus the fun tools and culture and platforms like iOS being achievable for small devs.

Now it has become fcking drudgery; I can’t understand why anyone would want to become a developer now. You don’t get any creative freedom and just get assigned tickets and treated like a robot by 75 layers of middle management.

Programming as a creative act is wonderful. Programming as a career puts you always at the bottom of the pile, whether you like it or not.

“Oh you shudders* code?”

Being a developer is a low status occupation despite being high paid.