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by magicalhippo 640 days ago
If you're just there to churn out code, then yeah, perhaps find something else.

But if you're there to improve your creativity and critical thinking skills, then I don't think those will be in short supply anytime soon.

The most valuable thing I do at my job is seldom actually writing code. It's listening to customer needs, understanding the domain, understanding our code-base and it's limitations and possibilities, and then finding solutions that optimize certain aspects be it robustness, time to delivery or something else.