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.
Software Industry, Layoffs, Hiring, Uncertainty, Waterloo
20 points by d-k-blackthorn 13 days ago | 6 comments
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.
Software Industry, Engineering Culture, Power Dynamics
13 points by shahinism 29 days ago | 4 comments
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.
Software Industry, Career Advice, Software Engineering
95 points by thesephist 125 days ago | 83 comments
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.
Software Development, Productivity, Measurement, Software Industry
34 points by aard 151 days ago | 11 comments
I love programming but I hate the programming industry (deathbyabstraction.com)
Programming, Software Industry, Career, Technology
269 points by conquestofdread 348 days ago | 200 comments
The Microsoft-Dilemma – Europe as a Software Colony – Full Documentary (kolektiva.media)
Microsoft, Europe, Software Industry, Documentary, Politics
102 points by jrepinc 355 days ago | 134 comments