Hello Developer! What are you doing this year?

A question to all the developers out there…

I am a full-stack developer working as an Engineering manager out of a startup in New Delhi, India.

I am writing this down thinking over “what am I doing?”. This is not a letter out of a depressed engineer, who had thousand dreams when graduated from a college. Or is it?

So here, I just want to ask something to all the developers out there comparing themselves with people around and satisfied(may be not) with what they have right now and have a plan to work on to reach at a point in next year and further. {In short, I am asking myself}

Don’t you think world is going way beyond what we are doing……..?

We are still struggling with normal HTTP requests at our respective organisations, making stupid APIs, Setting up docs, Thinking the language we use is better than any other… Writing an algo to do something for the first time and coming back home smiling that I did something awesome today.. etc etc…
Is that the pace or productivity/day you thought you’ll achieve after 5 years of Job?

Don’t you think we should have surpassed the use of programming languages by now…?
“Research institutes spending tons n tons of dollars to achieve AI”, “Elon musk from Tesla Motors wants to colonize mars” and we are still thinking of NODE is better or GO… “Mark Zuckerberg is making Jarvis” and we are thinking of scaling a server…. for a Product.

Me architecting a fucking CMS for million users resource effectively and feeling proud of it….
That’s not the world’s first problem. And has been solved by developers like a million times.

What am I doing different to help the world grow?

Don’t you think this is way too less than what we should be doing….? If we cant work on the same problems like Elon musk or Mark Zuckerberg .. But…

Shouldn’t we be working on something to build open source systems which will auto-architect and auto scale in a resource efficient way?

#Peace