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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia: 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
Things I wish got more attention in software:
- A lot of software devs don't code because they love it, and a lot of people who assumed most developers love what they do have been living in a bubble
- To drive that point home: yes, for many programmers, I'd say most in the industry even: it's a job, not something they take any pride in, no more than most people who work at McDonald's take pride in making hamburgers
- It very much shows in software quality, which has been unacceptably low for a considerable period of time, but the floor as of late has gotten lower; we are approaching Windows 98 levels of low-quality
- Even FOSS is now often governed by industry, big projects have a lot of people being paid to work on them
- Smaller projects that are foundational but not considered flashy often rarely get any attention
- Not enough people are really helping at the lower layers of the stack, and Claude is, unfortunately, filling that gap
- There is a genuine pent-up desire for people to learn the lower parts of the stack, but it feels intimidating and it is still very much gatekept and hard to learn
- If we want to have more humans writing software, more people need to be doing what I'm doing: mentoring others in this space and helping them learn the lower parts of the stack
- "It was hard for me" should mean you help people up the ladder, not push the ladder down and say "it should be hard for them, too"