jozanza 🎮💜

it’s honestly incredible to see software decline in real time these last couple of years i think there are different factors contributing to this nobody cares about the actual craft anymore, which is the consequence from: 1. leetcode interviews and faang interview style adoption - dsa is good but it doesn’t capture real knowledge on building systems 2. constant layoffs and ship jumping with no consequences - ie promo driven culture, ship and dip, no one is held accountable because nobody stays in charge of the product/system long enough to even have the full domain knowledge 3. non technical PMs in charge of product, services and pushing engineering to just ship with little understanding of the space, with only regard for themselves, because they too want that promotion and who cares if prod is broken 4. software engineering is not taking seriously - call it development, programming, whatever but nobody wants to have ownership and people dont care, just try to make the devs ship and the devs try to shit out a bunch of awful stuff to stay employed 5. with the addition of ML/AI into the picture we have a lot of brilliant folk who just wanna work in the AI space, which ofc is interesting but so is software engineering as a whole, a lot of challenging problems everywhere and AI is part of swe id say, we have people trying to ship AGI unable to run a crud app 6. the death of excellence - this feels like a global problem everywhere you go and look at, the decaying state of things, lack of domain knowledge or willingness to learn - a global cultural phenomenon? maybe i need to touch some grass