idk, I'm not a software engineer. I'm a sysadmin.
Or, am I a "devops engineer"?
or.. a "SRE"...
or... am I a platform engineer?
You know what, I don't know.
What I do know, is that people keep trying to make my job obsolete, only to hire me under a different title for more money later. The practices and the tools are the same too, yet to justify it to themselves they'll make shit up about how the work is "actually, a material difference from what came before" (except, it's really not).
I'm still employable after 20 years of this.
I'm not a software engineer, and I'm not a tech CEO - I don't care, but people have been trying to replace me my whole career (even myself: "Automate yourself out of a job” is a common sysadmin mantra after all). Yet, somehow, I'm still here.
Or, am I a "devops engineer"?
or.. a "SRE"...
or... am I a platform engineer?
You know what, I don't know.
What I do know, is that people keep trying to make my job obsolete, only to hire me under a different title for more money later. The practices and the tools are the same too, yet to justify it to themselves they'll make shit up about how the work is "actually, a material difference from what came before" (except, it's really not).
I'm still employable after 20 years of this.
I'm not a software engineer, and I'm not a tech CEO - I don't care, but people have been trying to replace me my whole career (even myself: "Automate yourself out of a job” is a common sysadmin mantra after all). Yet, somehow, I'm still here.