Possible Reasons:
- General direction of the industry. Many SWEs feel disillusioned due to various factors.
- Layoffs
- Many who entered the industry in the last 5-7 years have lost touch with it or lost the "passion" they once had.
Possible Reasons:
- General direction of the industry. Many SWEs feel disillusioned due to various factors.
- Layoffs
- Many who entered the industry in the last 5-7 years have lost touch with it or lost the "passion" they once had.
I don’t know if this is a distinction worth making, but I’ve never really thought of my relationship as to the industry, it’s to the work, and I’ve always loved the work.
But yeah I hated being an SWE. 90% of my career’s projects consisted of reinventing the spreadsheet and 90% of my time was spent listening to people bikeshedding about the color of buttons. The direction of the industry is less relevant to my choices
I’m sure my new course will feature similar motifs of redundancy and soul-sucking pedantry, but I’ll give it a decade like I did software and move on to career #4 if I tire
This, but for mobile apps.
"Uber for aircraft", "Cross LinkedIn with AirBnB with Google Maps", "Read the news", "Foursquare but for my hobby"… it was exciting when I was young and fresh and didn't know what was out there; now I know that I just didn't realise how many others were doing the same things.
Competition I didn't spot meant success was all about discovery rather than actual innovation, "build it and they will come" is just not true. Discovery means paying an ad-tax to the gatekeepers of eyeballs. But that's a bidding war, an all-pay auction for your version of the widely-instantiated "innovation" to win a temporary monopoly before the feature becomes table stakes in a bigger product, like IE was to Netscape, and Sherlock was to whoever that was, and Skype to all chat apps.
We are just seeing a bubble popping in slow motion.
spooneybarger•1mo ago