As we come into 2020, I am now pretty sure I picked the wrong career. If I had known what computers were going to become, I probably wouldn't have wanted to be a programmer. It is definitely no longer a career for people who take pride in their work.
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My assumptions when I was little about what would happen to software was that it would become _more_ reliable over time. Instead it did the opposite, and everything is now more or less continually in a state of semi non-functioning, with no way for anyone to fix it.
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And really, the IKEA analogy isn't even complete. It's much worse than just having to build a chair on top of IKEA-quality legs. It is more like if IKEA had the ability to come put on _even worse_ legs any time they wanted, so you didn't even know how bad the chair might get!
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another analogy You can sell your furniture, but can't change the house people put it on. I guess you could work on making better platforms
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