Comment by ivape
It seems like a douchey post but it’s not. Just browsing the internet makes me regularly question how difficult it is keeping the tech industry full of people that give a shit. Software ate the world and along with it came a contingent that don’t care enough about it. The choppy first page load, the non-smooth scrolling, the ads janking in, shifting layout and content in unpredictable ways, and finally the bombarding of intrusive ads and popups where the dev didn’t even take a few minutes to construct a sensible UI compromise (yes, we need to show ads, but can we show the ads without anal fucking the user’s eyes? Yes possibly).
So yes, we have a real IDGAF issue in tech, and I can’t imagine this getting better because Gen Z all have a casual drug dealer “this just my side hustle” attitude, and Millennials will not a give a fuck because they are still pissed about the GFC and the cost of housing. The Leetcode people don’t give a fuck because they are burnt out on Leetcode and their entire identity is based on salary and very little to do with quality of their actual work.
There’s literally … and I mean this, there’s literally no one left to care.
I think there are those of us who care. It's tough though
It's tough to convince colleagues that they should take pride in their work; that UX quality is an asset not a cost; to chase user goals not OKRs; to focus on outcomes not just processes.
The "carelessness" you describe is self sustaining. It creates a culture where everyone is chasing the illusion of achievement; everyone is measured on proxy metrics; interviews measure proxy skills like LeetCode; developers increasingly outsource their knowledge to subsidised AI plagiarism machines; everything is a con and everyone takes the attitude that honesty is for suckers.
It might just be the consequences of tech eating the world. At some point the success, the money, the scale, the consequent bureaucracy and even the salaries themselves distort the culture irrevocably