> I think the amount of "grunt work" in the tech industry is just growing and not shrinking...
Not sure, but isn't this just another way of saying that the tech industry keeps growing?
Not sure, but isn't this just another way of saying that the tech industry keeps growing?
Similarly, keep in mind a lot of this grunt work is just to satisfy some reporting requirement from somewhere -- some person(s) in the company want to see at least X% of uptime or Y LOC every day, so you get people trying to write a lot of yak shaving code that basically does nothing except satisfy the metrics or ensure that uptime % always looks good (i.e., they don't fix the cause of the downtime entirely, they just get the endpoint that is checked to determine update working well enough so it reports to the monitoring system and they leave it at that)
What IMO, is quite obvious.