Why I am getting out of software development after 10+ years of coding
Isaac Ibbott
Well that’s it. I’m getting out of modern software development. Let me say that again, I don’t want to be a software developer anymore! You might want to get out too, and there are good reasons to do so. Because times have changed and so has software…
But why do you want to get out of development?
It comes down to a simple observation. Everything is chopped up into tiny parts making us into experts of radar wheels instead of a whole car. Think the evolution of splitting up frontend and backend development, loading a dependency for every problem at hand, microservices and the explosion of frontend frameworks.
In conclusion software development has become more granular. And arguably, more boring as well. But I hear you, of course, I understand, efficiency and specialization. Then again we can argue about this efficiency argument. Because the overhead granularization brings for small teams building a product might not even be worth the trade-off having to maintain all these dependencies and skillsets.
We all seem to have become lemmings running for the latest fads some tech giants cooked up in their industrial kitchens.
