> Marketing gets a hold of the idea, gives it a flashy name, and uses it in promotions After a half-decade in the industry, I am beginning to realize there is

> Marketing gets a hold of the idea, gives it a flashy name, and uses it in promotions After a half-decade in the industry, I am beginning to realize there is a lot of bad engineering hiding behind marketing and emoji. So many of these web tools have nightmarish interfaces and add complexity that, for most of the industry, is unnecessary. But their docs pages are full of rocket ships and confetti.... I swear, seeing a page with rocket ship emoji has become such a turnoff. Why do we need our engineering handed to us sprinkled with decorations like a cupcake? And the imposter syndrome that the entire industry seems to share dictates that a large percentage of developers feel like they need to be using these tools as a badge to wear saying, "Yes, I am with it and hireable." Meanwhile, the technology itself keeps churning because there is now a profession full of people believing that creating and open sourcing the Next Big Thing in ____ Technology is the best way to move their career forward. People keep reinventing wheels because everyone is focused on making a name for themselves with the new; no one notices the person doing mundane maintenance on Rails or whatever. I think it's been this way since the 70s/80s to some extent, after having done some reading on the history of the profession. I think it's just scaled with the number of programmers and the Internet has applied its intensification effects.