Thank you for helping me recognize that the hellhole I'd previously worked in in my first software dev job out of college was a SAFe gig. I'd referred to it a l

Thank you for helping me recognize that the hellhole I'd previously worked in in my first software dev job out of college was a SAFe gig. I'd referred to it a lot as "weaponized agile" (which I believe it is), but somehow I hadn't connected the dots of my middle manager casually mentioning safe to the inane, almost preschooler level of sticker-award-insult that strips away developers abilities to, well, do what they've spent their career learning to do and instead "gives them the ability" to "pick their own team names (and we can name our epics in a theme! :") )" (insert gratuitous "yay"s, clapping, and suggestions of how fun it will be). This helps paint a lot of things in retrospect a lot more clearly. As you can see, I am still intensely salty about this experience many years later. >:')