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I am currently actually. My startup I put my heart into for 5 years got bought out by $BIG_COMPANY for pennies on the dollar a couple years ago. Have just been giving about 2-5% effort since. Half the people that built our startup got screwed over and laid off. It felt only right to give zero effort since then as a survivor of it. Waiting for $BIG_COMPANY to drop next round of layoffs and rethink my career.
I love programming. But this field is just garbage to the people that care about it. I'm bitter for sure. Collecting a paycheck until then. I'm surprised at how little effort I can give and still not get fired.
And don't even get my started on how much this field exploits the fuck out of H1 visas for what is basically modern day serfdom.