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[–] 31 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I'm a principal engineer making a killing and often feel like

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    I'm a principle engineer, I'm broke as shit and I can see everyone else being incompetent (and outsourcing their brains to Claude) all day.

    Gimmie one of these 130k jobs where I don't need to know anything, I'm sick of BS infra and k8s and shitass applications made as zillions of fucked microservices written by people who already bounced.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Knowledge without networking: low pay

    Networkung without knowledge: hi pay

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I’ve heard this before, not everything has to become a microservice rather it’s okay for some aspects to be a monolith.

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    It was a regrettable trend 10 years ago and when your team contracts from 60 to 6 its an unmaintainable shitfest. I'm trying to coax them into merging them into a monolith with multiple entrypoints/builds so I have one set of dependencies to deal with.

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