There is so much wisdom in here.

Fundamentally, don't make life hard for yourself, or others.

And yet defaulting into grug-mode is clearly self-defeating.

The wisdom only applies to the places where it applies, and there is no wisdom there on telling where those places are.

It's not really. Grug solves problems. Grug does not create problems that need to be solved to solve other problems.

> Grug solves problems.

Well, except for the problem of too much grug.

When a company measures developer productivity in code added and feature delivered, it creates a perverse incentive that attracts people that really love to write a lot of code and building mountains out of molehills.

The best engineer (and not only, see that famous quote by Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord) often is the lazy one. It was a known notion that somehow disappeared around the turn of the millennium.

Indeed.

We're still around. We're just so far up the hierarchy now that the wisdom can't be pushed down easily.

Fuck agile and 10x DevOps developers.

Who's hiring grugs, the lazy programmers that try to do the most efficient thing in the least amount of work? I'm not smart enough to set up a whole georeplicated k8s cluster for your blog. I'll use Apache, maybe put Varnish if you get on the frontpage of HN, ok?

(Work smart, not hard. DevOps today is the exact opposite of that)