> constant feeling of frustration caused by things not working or breaking for random reasons
That’s not a feature of software development, but a feature of working higher up in the stack and/or interfacing with lower-quality external systems. I am lucky to have been working on relatively self-contained systems for most of my career, where that experience hasn’t been a constant.
That’s not a feature of software development, but a feature of working higher up in the stack and/or interfacing with lower-quality external systems. I am lucky to have been working on relatively self-contained systems for most of my career, where that experience hasn’t been a constant.