i’m literally having the most fun of my entire life in tech right now. spent most of my career building wacky shit for the love of the game or ambitious greenfield shit. the hard way. now i can truly do whatever the fuck i want, and i am.
notice i didn’t say maintainers
couldn’t have predicted that the “combine a bunch of technologies into some novel combination” would be such a valuable and applicable skill moving forward.
i feel like previous open source builders are uniquely positioned to succeed now.
also software engineering is still very much a job and will continue to be. unless you refuse your new magic powers. in which case, godspeed