Focus on what matters is my only advice. Hint: it’s not your editor.

One snap of the fingers in one of the many layers above us and million dollar projects succeed or fail. We are always a fancy dinner or business relation gone sour away from success or failure.

Vim or emacs come into play at layer 245 in the system and their impact on the final business reality is approximately 0,003%.

I can’t think of a technical reason a website without auth needs cookies to function.

To me this is like a dev saying “screw Git, I just want to do console.log(). All this complexity is sabotaging my productivity.”

Modern jobs, even health care, require learning about and managing complexity. It’s not just “taking care of people”. Throwing your hands up and saying “I’m old”, which is a lousy excuse because I know plenty able old people and completely digitally illiterate young people, is not a viable solution.

Now, whether we want that as a society is another topic. But for the foreseeable future adapting to complexity and actually taking the time to sit down and learn this shit is IMO the only way forwards.

I don’t see why nation states should be democracies, but “businesses” should be private dictatorships. It’s a waste of shared resources. Your personal army of value generating serfs is taking away from our collective capacity to do useful communal work.

I can see LLM’s playing a role here..

- 1000+ applications, 2 interviews. Holy batman. That’s what, 4+ applications a (work)day for a year straight? How do you even find these positions.

- “Air tight”, god-tier CV.

- Only doing “PR”s.

- Handling “setInterval”s.

I wish to believe there are still people that don’t care about making Yet Another few hundred thousand and just want to actually contribute to society instead of working on ad tech or whatever bullshit.

We have set a game in motion that even sounds bad in theory leads to hideous results. That it quasi-works in practice is a goddamn miracle and a testament to our flexibility. I say quasi, because for it to work for the top of the pyramid it requires large swaths of our species to exist in bitter, soul-crushing poverty and, given that morality is not really an issue for us psychopaths, it remains to be seen if our recent penchant for planet-scale destruction has any long-lasting effects on our ability to survive as a species.

The two are so ridiculously intertwined. It’s already a problem within CSS, where layout systems and styling are mixed. Flexbox and grid have nothing to do with colors and gradients, which are again themselves orthogonal to positional properties. Fonts, paddings and margins (in 15 different units, look it up) add to the insanity. Now sprinkle in animations, box models and borders.

Now that's dangerous thinking, but I think you are onto something.

> We aren't seeing the developers who start using copilot/gpt rush ahead of their peers.

You think we are antsy worker bees, hastily rushing forwards to please the decision maker with his fancy car?

You are leadership. It's not hard. Cui bono, follow the money, etc. The incentives are clear.

If me and my peers were to receive a magic "do all my work for me" device I can assure you exactly zero percent of that knowledge will reach your position. Why would it? The company will give me a pat on the back. I cannot pay with pats on the back. Your Tesla cannot be financed with pats on the back. Surely you understand the nature of this issue.

I think it’s less “supporting the paradigm” and more “if I am going down we are all going down here”.

I’m this though. I’m a raging introvert and I am married. But no, I am not loyal to my wife because my lifestyle doesn’t offer me enough alternatives. That’s F’ed up. Being loyal and committed and being an introvert is also orthogonal by the way.

Being a good husband and being quiet and easygoing are also orthogonal. Emotional needs are a thing in both of you and they are not met by tinkering with raspberry pi’s.

If you are hosting game nights and actively pursuing community, you are not a raging introvert. Trust me on this. You are a normal person with a bit of both and maybe slightly introverted and yes, you might be lacking an authentic connection. Notice this doesn’t mean a romantic connection, that’s just the “normie” variation of it.

But I am convinced every person needs something outside his or herself to truly grow. I think this can be found in art or religion, but I am not sure. Another human is easier.

There is no hard rule that I know of but my heuristic is something like “can I bring instances up and down randomly without affecting operations (too much)”. If so, I’d call that a microservice(ish) architecture.

The waters have been muddied though. Microservices were IMO once associated with Netflix-like scalability, bringing up and down bunches up “instances” without trouble. But nowadays what used to be good old service-oriented architecture (SOA) tend to be also called microservices.

SOA can also be about scalability, but it tended to focus more on how to partition the system on (business) boundaries. I guess like you did.

It’s all a bit muddy in my experience.