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> Let me unequivocal: you can spend 30-40 years at a company doing absolutely nothing while getting paid for it. Maybe this was true for 40 years from the 70s
by bluefirebrand 2y ago
> Let me unequivocal: you can spend 30-40 years at a company doing absolutely nothing while getting paid for it.
Maybe this was true for 40 years from the 70s to the 2000s, or maybe even the 80s-10s, but I don't think this is true anymore
Certainly not in software engineering, in a world run by JIRA
- wbl 2y agoTo clarify: the tickets can close but they don't push the product forward at all.
- bdangubic 2y agooh man, respectfully but this cannot be further from the truth. SWEs have successfully convinced everyone that profession “is not about just coding” (you see a sea of these statements here on HN in 100x daily posts “will LLMs replace us”) and hence tools like Jira only amplify ability to do (mostly) nothing