This. And I'm wondering whether this was the end of human forums on the net as well. I mean, who can tell whether the comments he reads are coming from a human or a tuned AI. And then the implications of this in politics...
If I'm on a meeting with you I can see where you're looking at and what you're doing with your hands. Also I know that you are not recording me and can replay me again and again. Also you are not peeking in my house.
Camera-on is simply very close to a black-mirror cringe-zone where I don't want to be.
I'm not talking block diagrams here. I'm talking about fully fleshing out issues down to the level of functions inputs and outputs(1). So that managers will be pleased with the "planning" and "sizing" and some other buzzwords...
(1) Which (outputs) are another bitter story since we are building on top of legacy code that is working with side effects from head to toes. But let's not touch this can of worms.
Job market is weird and gets weirder and more hostile as you grow more senior and older.
Yet, it is a numbers game. Just keep at it and maybe change your focus a bit. E.g. if you target startups leave them aside and focus on banks or health sector. Pivot around.
Agree 100%. Plus Helm runs against a basic tenet of microservices (the usual architecture for the deployed apps in k8s these days). People use to bundle services together when using Helm and the like which, in time, couples services together.