Shipping a button in the age of cloud, vibe coding, JS frameworks.

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Programmers are also human

A satirical skit lampooning the absurdity of modern software development culture, where shipping a simple button becomes an endless spiral of over-engineering. It mocks tech stack debates (Rust, microservices, Kafka, graph databases, service meshes), tooling obsessions (Vim, custom keyboards, Cursor vs VS Code), process theater (SAFe, Jira story points, RBAC for a button), and the constant churn of frameworks and trends. The punchline: after all the debate, nothing gets built.

Shipping a button in 2026…