Uh huh. Funny how many self-righteous people never seem to appreciate the concept of DARVO.

Let me know when you’ve got something more interesting to say besides childishly commenting, “Nuh UH. I’m right because I say so.”

Same reason you’re incapable of not having the last word.

The Internet Dickwad theory has been around quite a while. It’s not a giant mystery.

Sure, kiddo. Whatever gives you that dopamine hit for being yet-another random internet douchecanoe.

“Hurr hurr… I’m right and I’ve decided you’re wrong because reasons. I’m not going to engage with anyone because everyone rejects my assertions that I’m right and everyone else is wrong.”

Uh huh. Real nuanced perspective you got there.

Sounds like a self-defeating argument. So glad I could stand by while you beat on that straw man for a while. Feeling better after that li’l display, champ?

Says the Luddite without an argument…

You do not realize how many businesses operate every single day and make plenty of money on suboptimal code.

Industrial scale everything does not care, so long as the job gets done and the invoice is paid.

Just like with every other profession made obsolete by technology, the 80% case won’t need your bespoke, hand-crafted, artisanal assembly. There will still be minority cases who will pay a premium for it. And plenty of people will still program as a hobby or for their local community. But industrial scale software will be written by bots.

Because the world runs on good enough. No matter how many elitist neckbeards get butthurt in the process.

Uh oh. The ice carvers are complaining about the evils of refrigeration again…

What do you do if you want to leave tech?

You don’t. Every aspect of modern society needs some amount of tech. But the tech we need doesn’t automatically need to be the adware-laden, spyware-as-a-service enshittified garbage that BigTech foists on us in the name of ever-increasing quarterly profits.

We all have a choice. If you can make tech, you can choose to make tech for humans, not corporations. There are numerous apps that we would all love a simple, cleanly implemented version maintained by a small team of individuals dedicated to creating a useful application that solves real-world problems without ripping anybody off or filling our viewscreens with pointless ads.

There’s a simple equation anybody can follow. Make something useful that someone else finds value in, sell it for a reasonable price. That’s it. That’s all any of us need to do in tech. Grab the off-the-shelf hardware, the open-source software, make something useful, and sell it for a modest profit that the makers can live a modest life on.

We all can choose to be less greedy any time we want. We can choose to work for less greedy people. We can choose to maximize for human impact, or for quality, or for longevity. We do not need to keep choosing maximum profit at the expense of our own ecological well-being.

Glad to hear the initial setup has gone well.