Post #3207551

2026-03-12 11:43 UTC

@hanshuebner@mastodon.social Sounds a bit dystopian, if it plays out like this what are the options if coding is what you like? Make coding a hobby and join the ever spiraling shift from technology to technology-management? Or join the trades in a desperate move out of this sector?

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@hanshuebner@mastodon.social 2026-03-12 11:49

@jrauber@mastodon.social I personally also like building things, no matter whether I write the code or not. My father had a good analogy: Back when he was a young civil engineer, electronic calculators became common, many of his (older) peers were so used to using slide rules and trigonometric function table books that they liked the activity and had to give in to the thought of giving that up. They were still construction engineers, as we are software engineers, even with changing tools.

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@GrandmasterBash@chaos.social 2026-03-27 16:41

@jrauber@mastodon.social @hanshuebner@mastodon.social both are viable Options and I am considering both currently as a fourty year old developer. I am in the middle of my career and I am highly unsure were to go from here. Also a quote from a Junior Collegue today: I've asked claude to build a feature and half an hour later it was done like magic. Then he said, I don't know whats my purpose in my project anymore. To me that's facinating and concerning at the same time. I notice more interactions like this on a regular basis.

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