I had long discussions over whether we could just not use tons on npm libraries and use the native browser feature for things like that. I typically lose these discussions because I'm considered the backend guy. My knowledge about HTML, JS and CSS dates back to times when there was no npm...
I really like this paragraph about management caring about AI:
> What makes this worse, is our bosses have bought into it this time too. My managers never cared much about database technologies, IDE’s or javascript frameworks; they just wanted the feature so they could sell it. Management seems to have stepped firmly and somewhat haphazardly into the implementation detail now. I reckon most of us have got some sort of company initiative to ‘use more AI’ in our objectives this year.
And sometimes the things that are automated were the only thing that was pleasant. It's not true for laying bricks because the heavy lifting makes it unpleasant.
Construction costs are cheaper than ever? The prices have skyrocketed in the past year. Is this something special to Germany? I would've expected that the pandemic shows equal effects elsewhere.
In my company, every software engineer also has the software architect role. This way everybody is aware that they are welcome to think about the architecture of software. There are no dedicated architects. This works quite well in my experience.
Even in a professional context it's reasonable to use the language your customer (business expert) is using. Beware of mapping technical terminology into another language! And if that means you write Swedish code, that's perfectly valid.