Most people in the industry right now, even at FAANG and even among people carrying "senior" titles at these places, have little experience with "software design principles" -- tens of thousands of brilliant Ivy League graduates with surreal compensation packages have spent the last decade pulling tickets off JIRA and pasting least-change-possible patches onto existing code for about 10 hours a week while spending the other 30+ hours barely engaged at meetings.

I work on my code this way, but I have no idea what my colleagues are doing, and it's impossible to review thousands of new/changed lines a week.

I just approve PRs, because I have to. I don't know what else to do. I can barely keep an eye on all my code.

Actively looking, but job market is rough in Northern Europe. I quit caring about quality in any capacity here, the company has clearly chosen its direction, against my very vocal complaints.

My last interview, with what I thought was a great company, failed when I didn't understand what NLP was when they asked me about it.

> NLP? > Natural Language Programming, it's the future. Claude, GPT, etc.

I laughed, he didn't, looked offended and said it was a serious question. I had thought it was a joke, said "oh you mean LLMs". I tried to answer seriously, of course, but that was my third round technical interview and I didn't get a call back.

Just getting a paycheck and producing mediocre work until I get something new. (Senior engineer, 10 YOE, patents, 3 years at a unicorn).

Also considering becoming an electrician.

The LLMs know design principles too, being an experienced developer doesn't make you as special as you might think.