Comment by pjmlp
> After all, if we lose the joy in our craft, what exactly are we optimizing for?
For being one of the few lucky ones that gets to stay around taking care of the software factory robots, or designing them, while everyone else that used to work at the factory is now queueing somewhere else.
To me THIS is the most stressful part of the whole thing.
I like programming but I have other hobbies I find fulfilling, and nothing stops me from programming with a pen and paper.
The bad vibes are not caused by lack of programming, they're caused by headsman sharpening his axe behind me.
A few lucky programmers will be elevated to God status and we're all fighting for those spots now.