@michalfita@mastodon.social300MLoC... and turning programmers into alienated, easy to replace, gears.
Gears eagger to contribute to users' exploitation (in the case of
#BigTech) or just unaware of their own alienation.
Note that I'm in no way debating your argument: you are right, the current IT industry needs tools like
#Rust or
#Kubernetes to reduce their workers' autonomy, standardize their experience, homologate their behaviors and beliefs.
All to exploit their energy and funnel their creativity to its own goals (maximize owners' profits and power).
And just like
#Freire descibed in
The pedagogy of the oppressed, developers interiorize the tools of their own oppression, improving their efficacy and efficency.
Thats how some techs go from hype to religion,
#cargo culting and all.
But is this progress?
Is it "moving forward"?
Towards what kind of world?
You may or may not enjoy such evolution of our profession.
I don't.
Basically because I understand well where it leads both for us and everybody else.
For example, back in the 90
#FreeSoftware licensing was empowering devs because the inherent complexity of software was lower. Now you have all these permissively licensed molochs (kernels, browsers, compilers, orchestrators... but even standards) no single human can meaningful hope to
fully understand.
The 4 freedoms granted by the licenses are voided for people and can only be exploited by
big corporations.
But even on a pratical level, the practices our industry want from us are boring, convoluted, exhausting.
We are trained (mind-washed) to believe such practices are the best for
#security,
#scalability and what not. But the best of us, such as
@jana@social.jsteuernagel.de, end up discovering they are all
designed to solve problems that we don't have (or for problems that such artificial unneeded complexity creates). We learn that ultimately such tools and practice steal us of the joy of our passion for no real advantage (to us).
That's not
#philosophy.
It's just reasoning on the trajectories of our field without the usual corporate blinkers.
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