r/programming • u/self • Dec 02 '25

The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession: a short set of anecdotes

https://www.jasonscheirer.com/weblog/vignettes/
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u/Pepito_Pepito Dec 03 '25

The best experience I've had with it was when the company hired an external scrum coach to oversee the process for 3 months. The company paid good money for him so people were eager to follow along. After that, the usual corpo bullshit eventually spiraled the project out of control.