Anyone else bored of been a developer?

I think I’m becoming sick of this intellectual activity anyone at this stage or been here before?

🙋 right here. not su much because ofnthe activities, but because of the people

@AleCx04 More details, please 😃

@shoop Nah, I’m actually not. I can actually say it’s the reverse.

I’ve never been so excited waking up and going to work. I come in whenever (but must attend my standup) and leave whenever — as long as the Job is done.

My current work environment isn’t burning me out at all.

I think I just the human interaction. I’m not sure why I feel this way yet.

@LayzeeAnt Not having human interaction as a dev these days is... odd, to say the least. It's all about daily standups, sprints, meetings, pair programming, etc. If that's what you're after, you'll find it easily elsewhere. The era of working long days alone in dimly lit rooms, maybe emerging to go to the vending machine once in a while is long gone.

Heck, work your way up to management or lead level and it becomes you job to mainly interact with people rather than code.

I'm on the same boat

@AlmondSauce
All depends on where you're at. Enterprise, probably the case.

Many devs in the startup scene and FAANG work 100% remotely, and there's only so much value that can be derived from dogmatic, repetitious communication exercises like standup. Even when you're in an office, everyone is knuckle down, headphones on, all signs point to "fuck off I'm working" (amazon was particularly bad about that). Paired programming isn't a thing there either because people are expected to hit the ground running; they don't hire anyone that isn't already exceptionally capable. Going to lunch with colleagues means walking silently to the food truck, getting lunch and eating it at your desk with your headphones on. "Lead" engineers were the same, but expected to churn more pull requests to maintain their level so they could eventually make Principal Engineer.

Personally, if your goal is to make manager, you probably have the wrong motivation for doing this work to begin with.

@LayzeeAnt i find most developers to be whiny, opinionated, pretentious assholes. The industry is full of them and I greatly dislike it. I love my job, but the great lack of interesting or nice people make it a constant hassle.

@AlmondSauce yeah, I’m almost there.
Stepping back and looking at the situation again: it’s easier to manage code than people 🤣🤣

@netikras Why do you think you feel that way?

@SortOfTested I couldn’t agree enough.

@AleCx04 Damn!! This hits the nail on the head. This issue is prevalent in my environment.

It boils down to the “it could be done differently”, “there are many ways to doing it” kind of thing. I have found myself in the same trap too.

How do you deal with such?

@LayzeeAnt idk. Maybe I'm growing. Maybe I want to do bigger things, have more impact than just solve small, localized problems. In all the projects I used to sort of inhale the whole project, feel it's beat, I used to know all the strong and weak spots in the code, platform, processes, management and so on. And I could only change the code.

Maybe I've grown enough to want more responsibilities, to hack people rather than just code.

Code has become too easy for me.. Too boring. Too predictable. Managing people and other resources sounds like a better challenge!

@netikras Interesting

@LayzeeAnt How so?

@netikras Lately, I have come to the same realization. It's easy to manage code than people. People are complicated beyond what we admit.

I will surely be an interesting ride taking up such responsibility.