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by spacemadness 753 days ago
Coding for a corporation makes me feel the same. It’s a lot of theatre and politics. It’s constant pressure for some unexciting feature you have no choice but to make and then they just lay everyone off to celebrate when it’s finished. Meanwhile the dev ops team is busy changing things to get promo and breaking everyone’s tools in the process while PMs trying to get promo pull their hair out trying to make everyone go faster. It can feel like hell on earth at some companies. And the only winners are the executives who are on another plane of existence from the average employee.

Anyway, congratulations on moving on and having some success.

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Coding for oneself is pure bliss in comparison. It's the office work part of software development that kills the fun. Now it's a much more pragmatic hobby with a touch of whimsy. I love it!