As an indie game programmer, I cast magic spells and speak living worlds into existence. Pretty romantic. As a paid software developer taking tasks and bugs of

As an indie game programmer, I cast magic spells and speak living worlds into existence. Pretty romantic. As a paid software developer taking tasks and bugs off backlogs, justifying everything I do, no autonomy, forbidden to refactor, documenting everything, filling out dumb little forms in Jira that literally nobody ever sees again, attending meetings, making my boss look good, spinning myself in performance reviews, blah, blah, no I can’t say any of that is particularly poetic.