It's interesting how people view software as a distraction and an annoying side quest/cost center, but never apply that to, say, 90% of what management does. None of that "directly" makes money either!

That tells us a lot more about the leadership and management philosophies at modern companies than anything fundamental about what kind of work actually matters.

Eh it's nothing new. Outsourcing comes from the same spirit.

Perversely I find myself increasingly blaming the growth of product management divorced from engineering as the source of some of this.

Everyone wants to be the next Jobs, but somehow they missed that it was the marriage of high quality design and high quality engineering that got Apple where they are today.

Rather, the lesson they learned is that PMF and UX and yadda yadda yadda are all that matter and coding is just a means to an end.

It'll be interesting to see how many companies discover that you can't achieve those ends if you build on a broken foundation.

> annoying side quest

Face it - it's because developers are annoying princesses. Just read your comment again.

My entitled friend was whining AI will start monitoring his work and he won't be able to slack as much as he does now. Basically he'll have to work like everyone else. FFS.