Came here to say this. I was super surprised when I first found out that this came from Spy Kids.

If I was told I had to work 70 hours per week I’d quit on the spot.

This guy is fucking insane.

Professional software developer here. It’s definitely a career. I do agree it’s like art, it requires you to fit stuff together like a puzzle to get it to work. But I don’t think that makes it less of a “serious” career - there’s a lot of money in the field and as the world gets more and more invested in computing it’s become a very in-demand skill.

Yep. 196 communities are getting pretty highly upvoted too which is why you’re seeing them so much when browsing all.

Man, this is the thing that really gets me about agile software development. Finish all the work in the sprint? Good job, pick up more work from the backlog and we’ll give you an even bigger sprint next time. Falling behind? Mandatory overtime and a disappointed manager.

End result of it all is that you’re encouraged to do lazy work and pad out your time so that you don’t get assigned increasingly immense workloads and get burnt out. For a job where quality should be measured by how well a job was done, it’s instead measured by how much work was done - and that’s a huge problem.