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A lot of STEM jobs are bullshit. Intellectual grunt work. Most people are fixing other peoples bugs rather than building anything innovative. And a lot of the "
by collyw 3y ago
A lot of STEM jobs are bullshit. Intellectual grunt work. Most people are fixing other peoples bugs rather than building anything innovative. And a lot of the "innovation" in tech over the last years has been a rehash of ideas from the 60s.
- citrin_ru 3y agoFixing bugs is useful work. A bias against boring maintenance toward innovation is how you end up with crumbling infrastructure.
- shiroiushi 3y agoFixing bugs is useful, but if that's all someone does, that usually means the company's development process is bad. The developer of code should be ensuring it's bug-free, along with the rest of their team (i.e. code reviews, unit testing, system testing, etc.), not committing a bunch of crap to master and then expecting others to fix all their bugs.
- lukas099 3y ago> Most people are fixing other peoples bugs rather than building anything innovative. And you need the former to support the latter. That's one of the points of the article.