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I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering

hy do I bother getting angry about software? When I started writing, it came from a place of ennui — absolute despair at the amount of waste I was seeing in the technology sector since leaving university. I was paid spectacularly well, but nothing I produced had any value.

A delinquent motorcycle racer and a public school teacher produced one of Asia's most talented surgeons, another doctor currently sitting on seven properties, and a PhD in electrical engineering living in San Francisco. As we waited to be discharged, I could hear an elderly Greek grandmother being addressed very kindly by a social worker, who was trying to work out if the patient needed government-provided assistance around the house to avoid whatever had landed her in the hospital in the first place. The nurses were phenomenal, but many are burned out and thinking of quitting — and the median pay for a job so sophisticated and good-aligned is tens of thousands of dollars lower than what some of the most incompetent software engineers I've ever met make.

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