Agentic Thought Leadership
Matt BruntI present to you... the tech world:
LiquorVicar@brunty So true!
unlucio 🌍 
@brunty this is gonna be so fun in some years with the code generators neural networks.
Marcelo Soares Souza@brunty Basically the summary of my professional life over the last 28 years. I'm breaking my record now with 2 years and 10 months in the same place and the technical debt is coming my way. 😂
Timjan@marcelosoaressouza @brunty
4 years
3 years
2 years
I'm not so sure I approve of this pattern!
tuvok@brunty quite true, though it's not always the developer's choice to leave, my average would be about 2-3 years per job and most got terminated because the company employed too many people in the first place and then had to scale down when income didn't improve immediately (investors these days are quite short sighted and not interested in waiting)
Space Hobo@brunty As someone who worked on the same infrastructure at the same company for 18 years, I definitely feel this.
Chris Gerhard 
@brunty after 36 years in the same company working on the same tech I've seen a load of this...
Lyle Solla-Yates@brunty “why did they do it this way?” “We will never know”
J.P. Stewart
paul
Ratboy (reformed dino pirate)
kaiserkiwi 
@brunty what is he carrying?
Scandinavian ⁂ Architect@brunty new job is just inheritating other’s technical debt though…
tekhedd@brunty And then there are those of us who don't hop jobs like a middle manager... who are largely burned out and are ie. considering jobs in landscape gardening or as a greeter.
I'm looking into "doorman"[*] positions, myself.
* - OK it's gendered, but the replacement words really don't work and "doorperson" is awkward. I can be a "doorwoman" no problem. I think "human doorstop" is ironically dehumanizing. Was considering a position as a "door manager" but it didn't come with a raise.
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin
Yrjänä Rankka 🌻@brunty and... this is why a bunch of managerialisms prevalent in the industry were invented.
konsnylten@brunty two years? I work with SAP and there are still things in some systems that have been modeled in a way that was outdated already before I started working with it in 2008 😬
Chamomile 🐑@brunty And sticking around to actually deal with those problems and plan for the future is a sign that you're "unambitious."
Neil Brutalist@brunty I nearly got the tech debt once, but while I teased out the old code’s roots and carefully repotted it, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic had built a vast new bastion of tech debt under the banner of greenfield.
Matthew Walton@brunty about to hit seven years...
Luc@brunty also works pretty well now by replacing "NEW JOB EVERY 2 YEARS" by "AI CODE GENERATION".
Doron B.@brunty the software industry is getting out of hand.
David JašaThe technical debt: https://hachyderm.io/@diana/112457251635170272
Diana Montalion 🌻 (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] Made famous in the NewCrafts closing keynote (@[email protected]) … was a perfect moment set up by other talks here.
f♯ a♯ ∞@brunty yeah, and I'm usually the new house owner who's just been told there's someone waiting at the door 😂
musicmatze 
@brunty
This "new job every two years" is a really American thing I guess. I've not seen one European person in my life that does that.
This "new job every two years" is a really American thing I guess. I've not seen one European person in my life that does that.
Michal MěchuraWhat that doesn't tell you is that, in this cool new job you're sneaking off to, you'll have to deal with technical debt left over by whoever was there before you.
Erik Ableson
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ZephyrXero@brunty and then when you stick around to fix it, they lay you off