Engineers used to relax by debugging Spark pipelines on the couch — what now?
espricewright · x · 2026-09-30
An engineer jokes that when he needed to decompress after work, he'd sit on the couch with the TV on and debug Spark data pipelines. He asks what the younger generation does to relax now that coding agents are on the rise, sparking discussion about engineering culture in the AI era.
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