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This is the closest comment I could find to how I experience my burnout. Nothing makes me more anxious than realizing that I fall further behind every day I'm not spending (unbillable) time becoming an expert in all the dev/ops tooling that somehow became indispensable the past 5-10 years. It's funny because I used to LOVE computers as a teenager because I loved setting up and configuring Unix systems. Now, as a developer, the idea of writing configurations instead of code just makes my hair stand on end.


The complexity has increased exponentially, but the user experience has not.


If anything, it's regressed.

All of this complex tooling gives devops the ability to say "sorry, no capacity, see you in two quarters".




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