I'll take it a step further and say that every industry is depressing when it comes to computers at scale.
Rather than build efficient, robust, fault-tolerant, deterministic systems built for correctness, we somehow manage to do the exact opposite. We have zettabytes and exaflops at our fingertips, and yet, we somehow keep making things slower. Our user interfaces are noisier than ever, and our helpdesks are less helpful than they used to be.
I am drifting towards hating to turn on my computer in the morning. The whole day is like pissing into the wind, trying to find workaround of annoyances or even malfunctions, getting rid of obstructive noise from all direction, my productivity using modern computer systems is diminishing compared to where it was just mere 10-15 years ago (still better than 25 years ago not only becuase of experience but also the access of information on demand). Very depressing. I should have became a farmer perhaps.
I'll take it a step further and say that every industry is depressing when it comes to computers at scale.
Rather than build efficient, robust, fault-tolerant, deterministic systems built for correctness, we somehow manage to do the exact opposite. We have zettabytes and exaflops at our fingertips, and yet, we somehow keep making things slower. Our user interfaces are noisier than ever, and our helpdesks are less helpful than they used to be.