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"I see from your resume that you're more of a maintenance programmer, but we really need people who can hit the ground running, banging out new huge kernel modules. Maybe you could assist them, by writing unit tests, and fetching their coffee, so they can focus on the challenging new stuff?"

Is "new stuff" easier work than maintaining old stuff? I always thought it was the other way around. I always give greenfield stuff to the juniors. They fuck it up I fix it. It's basically like using chatgpt.

[deterministic]

I agree. Maintenance work is hard. Writing new code from scratch is easy.

At work we put the smartest most experienced people on maintenance work. Because it is the lifeblood and cash flow of the company. It directly pays the salaries of people working on new software that might never make a profit!