[dofm]

No.

(I mean, OK, so I can't just write that, because of some rule or another. But really, just no, at this point, surely? How is it we are so actively turning software development into some weird blend of cargo cults, homeopathy, prosperity gospel and penal treadmills? Chasing trend after trend from corporate influencers with motivated reasoning who are trying to create new cultures that entrench their weird inscrutable metered intelligence taps? Handing over this level of control to and for the benefit of the sociopathic or solipsistic executives of two companies that cannot demonstrate they will ever make a profit, backed by a handful of other companies who are stirring money around in a pot to make it look like they are still generating value? Can we stop? Please? Please?)

No.

(And also no: it was not, in fact, this bad before. No matter how you try to retcon it. It was not good. But it was also not this insanely nihilistic)