so what do you old farts that don't go into management actually _do_ to keep up with the arbitrary churn and escalating complexity in the software and hardware world? pandemic probably has something to do with it but at 46 i feel i'm hitting a wall
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my "retirement plan" has been to focus on better tools. focus more Haskell and Rust for instance but i keep getting drawn into embedded C land. i feel incremental changes are not going to cut it and i need to make some choices. cut some things out. not clear how.
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sorry for calling you an old fart
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i guess the problem is just scope. considering to move more deliberately to testing. that's where i've found most "tool freedom", and it's a domain that is seriously underestimated
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I'm 54 I am pretty deep into embedded these days because I am most likely to have "tool freedom" there (when the client/customer just wants a "thing" that works and less concerned about trendy "best practices".
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Nice. I guess this fits the "smaller scope" path. Where do you find that kind of work? Everything I've run into has some kind of legacy expectation, i.e. never really finished. Code lives on, will be maintained by others or is up front developed by team etc.
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Lucked into it, I guess. I got involved in non-IT type places (e.g. machine shops, industrial, etc) where they had particular small device "needs"and didn't care about SW. They had problems to solve. They needed a "thing" (or a production run of things).
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