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I love programming but I hate the programming industry

On being a faulty cog in a machine when the machine itself is faulty

Job ads that try to paint this as some kind of exciting meaningful endeavour that will enrich people’s lives and stimulate my engineering growth are an insult to my intelligence. Even in the cases where capital and other forces outside of our immediate control theoretically allow for us to build software in a way that is sustainable, or has a positive impact on the world at large, or is at the very least useful practically we still often don’t, because of simple inertia: it’s easier and usually more viable to do what’s on trend and reproduce the status quo once more. In truth, the most interesting engineering problems are usually the ones which arise naturally in our society, as opposed to those where technological advancement is an end in and of itself, or even those which attempt to artificially create a market demand where there isn’t one.

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