> Psychologically, it's rather wearying to repeatedly answer questions from non-technical folks with variants on "that solves a problem we don't have" or "that

> Psychologically, it's rather wearying to repeatedly answer questions from non-technical folks with variants on "that solves a problem we don't have" or "that would cost much more than what we do right now". Even worse is when there's a technical person with more pull than you who's built an identity around being "an X professional", where X is some overhyped-and-unimpressive-for-general-use thing. You end up feeling like fucking Cassandra: able to perfectly predict the future, but everyone who matters ignores you.