Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding
The red tape is garroting us.<p>My wife&#x27;s dev environment VMs are &#x27;remediated&#x27; at 8pm regardless if she&#x27;s using them or not - there is no override policy - and the company is singing the success story of saving 40 dollars in licensing.<p>At another corporation, it can take several weeks to learn how to fill out the IAM role and permission boundaries to allow a new app to run - and a governance board has to review it and allow it.<p>We have weaponized Agile and Scrum - loathsome coworkers will write stories to write stories. Upper management is pushing us to mark &quot;out of office&quot; one day a week, but to then work through it, due to superfluous meetings dragging the productivity down.<p>A 4000 dollar, maxed out macbook pro boots up directly into a load average of 20.00 and upwards, as antivirus software scrubs every interaction and files open and even at rest deep on the SSD disk. Teams videos run at 3 FPS and lag constantly, making one look like they dont understand the conversation.<p>All of this, to dabble in code, the thing we&#x27;re passionate to do, to try and help these places exist.<p>I didn&#x27;t fall out of love with coding.  I love it deeply, but there&#x27;s an abusive guardian at the front door with a shotgun, oblivious that I&#x27;m here to help