Recently I read this article about Software Disenchantement
(https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/) and I could not agree more.

I am "junior developer" accordingly to my employer because I don't
have more than 3 years in industry, nevertheless I have found people
with more than 10 years in industry who don't care about code
performance and think all the programming languages are the same.

I live and work in Mexico City. Most people think where are becoming
like India because a lot of young people are joining the software
industry as a granting ticket to get out of poverty.

I decided to pursuit a career in software when I was in high school
because I was fascinated of the history of Internet, the pionners,
solo programmers who created systems that became the standard of
Internet. Now a programmer is seen as a factory worker.

Nowadays the programmer is the lowest level in the software industry.
He is managed in most of the cases by someone who doesn't know how to
code, by a salesman who doesn't know how software works. (How do you
sell something you don't know how it works?) Yesterday I talked with a
manager who studied economics and managed projects about analytics and
artificial intelligence. He said programmers doesn't know how to
communicate with clients (who follow trends) who want the most recent
technologies because they tend to be very technical and nobody
understands. He added that's why the managers have a more important
role than programmers because programmers will never know how to sell
software because they lack knowledge on economics. I didn't replied
because the majority of my colleagues agreed. I think the software
industry was shaped like this, you create what the clients says and
don't care how it its build if it is working. They said the client is
first but most of the software created by the big companies doesn't
care about the client privacy.

Also I've notice that not all of my programmers colleagues have a
degree in computer science, the majority have degrees in mechatronics,
applied maths, maths and physics, electronics or not degree at all.
They know how to code but they lack some "ethics" and vision. I
advocate for free software and know the risks for society of the
artificial intelligence I am building and try to raise awareness about
this. But most of them doesn't seem to care about it. They don't care
if their code is not performant and if they using half of the RAM.

I work like a contractor in a bank. Most of the contractors are
programmers and the bank only employs managers, product owners, UI/UX
designers, economists, etc. I have seen lots of lazy UX designers and
managers who overwork the contractors and that's not a
problem. Nevertheless if a contractor makes a mistake he is dismissed
and replaced.

I ask myself how could we finish in this state?  When I was younger I
saw programming like art that could create a masterpiece. Now it seems
more like laying bricks.
Are colleges and universities shaping us to be "used" by those people?
Are we seen as geeks who only want to code and surf the web and not
took seriously?  My bosses always look me like a young boy who thinks
only about having fun and drinking beer. All of this depresses me and
makes me think if I should continue in this job. Are you feeling alike
or it seems more like the situation in my country?