Ohhh man wait I have so much to say about the “just say no” engineer.

The "just say no" phenotype of engineers believe these things generally (from my experience)

- thinks cloud is a psyop by the big tech people to fool companies into being locked in

- thinks everything companies do is to fool the stock market and prop up stocks

- thinks tech ecosystem was at its peak during their time and ever since then it has become overly complicated mess

- thinks that AI is hyped and will just becoming a passing thing in a few months

- simultaneously believes both that no new features are required in their product because it complicates things but also thinks layoffs shouldn’t be done (what would employees do?)

- believes in conspiracy theories like “bullshit jobs” but doesn’t realise the irony

- believes in things like “enshittification” and is generally pessimistic about the state of tech

There are lots of good things about these engineers as well to be fair

- generally smarter in a narrow sense and can spot out unneeded complexity

- they are the people to go to for hard technical issues

- they do, to be fair, care about their code base which I see less in others

- though dogmatic at times with dev principles, they bring a father like pseudo wise vibe to the team that makes it feel like a family

They also believe Kubernetes as introduced in their company because of Resume Driven Development. Microservices are also a part of Resume Driven Development to prop up Hashicorp stocks.

They strongly despise NoSQL and think a single MySQL instance is totally okay for their multi billion dollar company with 100k reads and 1k writes per second and NoSQL was a pushed by Big Cloud TM.