Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Industry

The struggle that made us in Waterloo (bearblog.dev)
I can feel uncertainty looming over the software industry as the hiring frenzy of the COVID era has given way to layoffs and hiring freezes.
From Hackers to PowerPoint Warriors: The Decline of Engineering Culture (sourcery.zone)
The software industry is no longer primarily about nurturing innovation for the sake of advancement. Instead, it’s caught in a cycle of repetition, reinforcing power structures and profit motives. And that, more than any technical debt, is what’s corrupting everything.
Thoughts on the software industry (2022) (linus.coffee)
Someone asked me via email about my thoughts on the software engineering field, and what I would tell someone new to the industry.
Cannot Measure Productivity (2003) (martinfowler.com)
We see so much emotional discussion about software process, design practices and the like. Many of these arguments are impossible to resolve because the software industry lacks the ability to measure some of the basic elements of the effectiveness of software development. In particular we have no way of reasonably measuring productivity.
I love programming but I hate the programming industry (deathbyabstraction.com)
The Microsoft-Dilemma – Europe as a Software Colony – Full Documentary (kolektiva.media)