The death of the craft: Why development feels completely empty now.

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I’ve been a backend dev for about four years, and lately, I feel like I'm attending the funeral of my own profession every single morning at the daily stand-up. I am grieving a job that, technically, still exists. My title hasn't changed, my salary is the same, but the day-to-day reality of what I actually do is completely unrecognizable. We used to be the ones who built things from the ground up. We were engineers.

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