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Re:The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just... by thunky on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:32AM (#46809980)
This, and I would also assume it's easier to spot idle factory employees, where idle devs (especially remote ones) can be easier to miss.

And, (assumption again) the factory boss doesn't have an incentive to increase idle worker numbers, where a dev manager often benefits from being in charge of a larger number of hardly working people.

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Re:The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just... by silvestrov on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:54AM (#46810217)
It is a lot easier for a software engineer to overcomplicate things.

All of a sudden it is no longer enough with a few shell scripts. No, we need a full kubernetes cluster to run a service used by 10 secretaries.

No, we can't just use PostgreSQL as a queue, we definitely need Apache Kafka for 1 msg per second.

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