This Panda Eats Pumpkins

unfortunately, the necessary dissociation required to make that work proved incompatible with the level of thought required to perform the task, but without it, it becomes too painfully clear how horrible the entire industry is

that's the thing tho coding was always "just a job" to me, it's part of why I burned out I do enjoy some minor coding as a hobby when I'm free to make actually good software I guess but the strictures of professional dev do not allow you to make good software my skills deteriorated because the stuff I wanted to learn to do my job better felt futile, because it would never be adopted, and I'm frankly not doing Java/Spring dev unless I'm getting paid for it but I'm still not gonna hand-in fucking copilot slop because I have to have SOME self-respect