> After all, if we lose the joy in our craft, what exactly are we optimizing for?
For being one of the few lucky ones that gets to stay around taking care of the software factory robots, or designing them, while everyone else that used to work at the factory is now queueing somewhere else.
For me the most surprising part is the phase of wonder, from those that apparently never read anything in the history of industrial revolution, and think everyone will still have a place when we achieve Star Trek replicator level.
For being one of the few lucky ones that gets to stay around taking care of the software factory robots, or designing them, while everyone else that used to work at the factory is now queueing somewhere else.