> with none of the pesky real life issues around physically building something, getting permissions, budgets, collaborating with workers, waiting for paint to d

> with none of the pesky real life issues around physically building something, getting permissions, budgets, collaborating with workers, waiting for paint to dry etc. Huh. It used to be fun for those reasons. I've gotten so burned out on coding in recent years because once the cloud became part of the stack, so did bureaucracy-- permissions, budgets, collaboration, dictation of style, opaque errors, legal review, bespoke CI/CD configurations, security-related constraints, etc. Coding just doesn't feel empowering anymore. It's like making a sandwich and having to go petition Congress before you're allowed to eat it. We had an incident at work that required multiple people working on a tedious task overnight; it was refreshing to just hammer out a sloppy script, write some tests, sneakernet it and see the prospect of a long night reduced to minutes.