Oh wow, it's so great to read this because it validates that I'm not crazy. I've been programming professionally for 15 years, but started as a kid too. I fee

Oh wow, it's so great to read this because it validates that I'm not crazy. I've been programming professionally for 15 years, but started as a kid too. I feel like this pivot you're talking about happened somewhere in the beginning of my career. I never jumped on the bandwagon and I feel increasingly miserable as the years go by. You'd have heard 9 year old me saying he wanted to be a programmer. I went to university to study Computer Science because I love computing and computers and solving problems with them. I like writing programs that solve problems for people, and I like making existing programs better by fixing bugs, refactoring them to make them easier to work on, etc. That's what I signed up for when I started my career. The shift to the cloud sent everything to hell. Like I've said, I've been miserable for years now. I've spent the past week struggling to plumb shit on AWS and Kubernetes. Actual programming was maybe 10% of the task I'm working on, and it was just connecting library A to library B, basically.