I’m a principle engineer, I’m broke as shit and I can see everyone else being incompetent (and outsourcing their brains to Claude) all day.
Gimmie one of these 130k jobs where I don’t need to know anything, I’m sick of BS infra and k8s and shitass applications made as zillions of fucked microservices written by people who already bounced.
It was a regrettable trend 10 years ago and when your team contracts from 60 to 6 its an unmaintainable shitfest. I’m trying to coax them into merging them into a monolith with multiple entrypoints/builds so I have one set of dependencies to deal with.
I’m a principal engineer making a killing and often feel like
I’m a principle engineer, I’m broke as shit and I can see everyone else being incompetent (and outsourcing their brains to Claude) all day.
Gimmie one of these 130k jobs where I don’t need to know anything, I’m sick of BS infra and k8s and shitass applications made as zillions of fucked microservices written by people who already bounced.
I’m an unprincipled engineer, in that case.
Knowledge without networking: low pay
Networkung without knowledge: hi pay
The normies have swapped a meritocracy for a kakistocracy.
And kakistrocracy sounds like a coprostocracy to me (caca)
Also goes for socials.
I’ve got one of those.
The most important skill is being able to talk to people and communicate… and being able to document shit in a useful manner for other people.
the technology skills are largely irrelevant.
I’ve heard this before, not everything has to become a microservice rather it’s okay for some aspects to be a monolith.
It was a regrettable trend 10 years ago and when your team contracts from 60 to 6 its an unmaintainable shitfest. I’m trying to coax them into merging them into a monolith with multiple entrypoints/builds so I have one set of dependencies to deal with.