I guess programming itself isn’t absurd in the same sense that law isn’t absurd if you look at it through the lens of logic.
But that’s only a very tiny part of the art… what breaks the camel’s back for many of us is all the BS around it coming from management, investors, clueless middle managers, political business people, overcommitted salespeople, and the constantly changing tooling so that something you wrote 6–12 months ago won’t run today anymore without a variable amount of change and effort. Not to mention the layers upon layers upon layers of abstraction that make the whole thing inscrutable.
I think that’s what a lot of us are fed up with and mean with “programming has become absurd”
But that’s only a very tiny part of the art… what breaks the camel’s back for many of us is all the BS around it coming from management, investors, clueless middle managers, political business people, overcommitted salespeople, and the constantly changing tooling so that something you wrote 6–12 months ago won’t run today anymore without a variable amount of change and effort. Not to mention the layers upon layers upon layers of abstraction that make the whole thing inscrutable.
I think that’s what a lot of us are fed up with and mean with “programming has become absurd”