Ohhh man wait I have so much to say about the “just say no” engineer. The "just say no" phenotype of engineers believe these things generally (from my experien

Ohhh man wait I have so much to say about the “just say no” engineer. The "just say no" phenotype of engineers believe these things generally (from my experience) - thinks cloud is a psyop by the big tech people to fool companies into being locked in - thinks everything companies do is to fool the stock market and prop up stocks - thinks tech ecosystem was at its peak during their time and ever since then it has become overly complicated mess - thinks that AI is hyped and will just becoming a passing thing in a few months - simultaneously believes both that no new features are required in their product because it complicates things but also thinks layoffs shouldn’t be done (what would employees do?) - believes in conspiracy theories like “bullshit jobs” but doesn’t realise the irony - believes in things like “enshittification” and is generally pessimistic about the state of tech There are lots of good things about these engineers as well to be fair - generally smarter in a narrow sense and can spot out unneeded complexity - they are the people to go to for hard technical issues - they do, to be fair, care about their code base which I see less in others - though dogmatic at times with dev principles, they bring a father like pseudo wise vibe to the team that makes it feel like a family