It's the culture of over-communication. In the last 8 year or so, I have noticed my ability to actually write code had dropped through the floor. Everything has

It's the culture of over-communication. In the last 8 year or so, I have noticed my ability to actually write code had dropped through the floor. Everything has to be discussed to death, reviewed, approved, and go through a release process and red tape that would make the US State Department blush. And the end result is still slow and inefficient. There is just no time to make it better as you move on to discuss something else to death, while drowning in a sea of Slack messages. At one level I understand it. Gone are the days of us hacking away as an island, playing around, experimenting. Software engineering is more mature, boring, and corporate.