The one thing I think this post gets right is the idea of how self-alienating a tech job can be. But I would argue that the desire is also part of an attempt t

The one thing I think this post gets right is the idea of how self-alienating a tech job can be. But I would argue that the desire is also part of an attempt to escape the unrelenting bureaucracy and lack of autonomy that can be so stifling in a tech job. Sometimes it feels like all of the decisions have already been made for you. Perhaps someone wrote a playbook of how you should cope with common work situations you might come across and suddenly you aren't an intelligent human anymore, but an infantilised child stripped of agency, your independence micromanaged away by a thousand software engineers before you who thought that it would be a good idea to treat people like machines; because it reduces risk, right? Perhaps someone doesn't like how you formatted some code, or named a variable, and you are held to randsom at the point of a PR review. And then you might have to explain to a customer why something in a complex system you have build cannot be changed without consequences; and they cannot really understand why this is, but suddenly you have to cope with their frustration at their powerlessness. And you are stuck between the emotions they are permitted and the inhumanity of the work that you do. Tech jobs can sometimes seem like a sadistic prison for the mind stuck between the human and the inhuman.