I'm not sure this is entirely true. While I agree that we might be automating our work away, it's not zero-sum. New technologies and industries will develop creating new spaces to automate. There are tons of things that…
Exactly. Unless you're a startup, just have a rotation for people on call. Also, resolving these issues tends to go far more quickly when you have as few people as possible looking at the issue. Those calls where you…
You can practice mindfulness and meditate daily and still be depressed about the state of the world you live in. You can recognize negative experiences, embrace them, and still feel empty afterwards. You can see…
I think lumping all coding together isn't fair either. When I'm designing and implementing new features, I definitely get a sense of satisfaction. It feels good to solve a difficult problem and the sense of…
This is a poor analogy imo. It's not a physical medium. There's a finite number of parking spots. Once they're used up they're gone. Media is not a finite resource. If I have 50 friends over to watch the Avengers movie,…
I'm not arguing that that other forms of engineering are completely inflexible or that software doesn't have some constraints. I'm just saying that in general it is far, far easier to change lines of code than it is…
I feel like other engineering disciplines would function closer to the software world if it was easier to iterate. It is very difficult to nearly impossible to change the design of a bridge once construction has…
People and businesses don't behave rationally. They behave with bounded rationality [0]. That is, they make the most rational decisions with information available to them. No one is working with perfect information.…
This resonates so much and seems to be a major trend in non-traditional tech companies. I've mostly worked in the financial industry and the executives' knowledge of technology is almost always horrible. As you said, a…
I don't think this is a practical solution at all. What would a licensing board certification entail? Thousands of certifications already exist, and we don't take any of them seriously. Why would the licensing board…
I'm not sure this is entirely true. While I agree that we might be automating our work away, it's not zero-sum. New technologies and industries will develop creating new spaces to automate. There are tons of things that…
Exactly. Unless you're a startup, just have a rotation for people on call. Also, resolving these issues tends to go far more quickly when you have as few people as possible looking at the issue. Those calls where you…
You can practice mindfulness and meditate daily and still be depressed about the state of the world you live in. You can recognize negative experiences, embrace them, and still feel empty afterwards. You can see…
I think lumping all coding together isn't fair either. When I'm designing and implementing new features, I definitely get a sense of satisfaction. It feels good to solve a difficult problem and the sense of…
This is a poor analogy imo. It's not a physical medium. There's a finite number of parking spots. Once they're used up they're gone. Media is not a finite resource. If I have 50 friends over to watch the Avengers movie,…
I'm not arguing that that other forms of engineering are completely inflexible or that software doesn't have some constraints. I'm just saying that in general it is far, far easier to change lines of code than it is…
I feel like other engineering disciplines would function closer to the software world if it was easier to iterate. It is very difficult to nearly impossible to change the design of a bridge once construction has…
People and businesses don't behave rationally. They behave with bounded rationality [0]. That is, they make the most rational decisions with information available to them. No one is working with perfect information.…
This resonates so much and seems to be a major trend in non-traditional tech companies. I've mostly worked in the financial industry and the executives' knowledge of technology is almost always horrible. As you said, a…
I don't think this is a practical solution at all. What would a licensing board certification entail? Thousands of certifications already exist, and we don't take any of them seriously. Why would the licensing board…