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Re:Times are great for programmers now. How does it end? by mstipetic on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:09AM (#30413509)
As someone who has managed developers And worked as a developer I’m not sure that’s completely untrue. I’ve seen bored devops people starting to build their own ci/cd system, massive meetings where people started building their own micro service framework, a dev in my startup spent a month reworking things into sagas with no consideration that we have no product market fit yet, people that insist on “contributing their thoughts” even though they’re not the least qualified or experienced… I’ve seen millions and millions of euros get wasted on things that don’t matter.
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Re:Times are great for programmers now. How does it end? by heurisko on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:37AM (#30415192)
> I’ve seen bored devops people starting to build their own ci/cd system

I've seen this too. It added tons of overhead before it was rightly cancelled.

> I’ve seen millions and millions of euros get wasted on things that don’t matter.

To be fair, I've also seen this from the business side. A great number of ill thought out unsuccessful projects, that are dispiriting to work on, as you know from the beginning that they will not be a success for concrete reasons, e.g. using an immature piece of software that doesn't support the features required.

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Re:Times are great for programmers now. How does it end? by marcellus23 on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:17AM (#30416102)
This is not unique, at all, to developers.
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