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@deprecated @LukeAlmighty

Also, the software industry itself is waging constant war against software developers, desperately trying to crush wages and expand the workforce by any means necessary.

Muh agile is another attempt to turn sw development into an assembly line job and squeeze more out of devs. It’s garbage, but whenever people point that out, advocates of agile keep saying it’s “not done right”. Quite similar to how the consistent failures of gommunism, “weren’t real gommunism”. If nobody can “do it right” then it’s a system unfit for actual humans.

The last time the West was good at engineering and built the foundation of current tech (moon landings, teh internet, unix, VMS, cool cars), when people became engineers because they liked to build, not because they thought they’ll make bank after a bootcamp. And they were led by older engineers, not clueless MBA assholes.

@LukeAlmighty @deprecated I've seen it in multiple places honestly, just talking with other programmers. It's a bigger issue in the big corporate tech environments where they have projects that require huge teams.

Good luck with the offshore programming team that codes cheap, has incompatible work hours, lots of vacation time, and every time you ask them to do something you can practically see a monkey's paw creepily curling a finger towards the palm.

@SecularBlasphemy @deprecated
I would ask where you work, but that would get to the doxing territory. But damn, that is both idiotic, and terrifying.

@deprecated @LukeAlmighty I've seen employers oscillate between "Let's import an H1-B visa worker who will do as we say or outsource work to Vietnam and won't complain much" and "Holy shit we need someone who speaks fluent english and can not only code but has communication skills better than Koko the gorilla."

@alyx @massiveracist@neckbeard.xyz
It is purely cultural. I grew up in an argeist country, and never felt need for any of the things mentioned above.

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