https://ertu.dev/tags/developer-life/ Recent content in Developer Life on Ertu's Blog https://ertu.dev/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://ertu.dev/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- 0.140.2 en Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:18:00 +0300 https://ertu.dev/posts/5_software_engineering_is_cool_but_is_it_interesting/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:18:00 +0300 https://ertu.dev/posts/5_software_engineering_is_cool_but_is_it_interesting/ <p>Software engineering has always had a strange reputation. From the outside, it looks extremely cool. Tell someone you are a software developer and, if they are not in tech, there is often a small moment of admiration. You can almost see them imagining green text scrolling across a black screen while you break into a satellite. For a long time, I probably believed some version of this too.</p> <p>But the longer I work in software, the less cool the actual job seems to me. I should be careful here. Software is still a great profession. It is difficult in a way that is hard to explain to people outside it. You can spend twenty years getting good at it and still regularly discover things that make you feel like a beginner. So I am not saying the job is easy. I am saying something slightly different. I am not sure it is that interesting. At least not compared with some other professions.</p>