Comments by "Vitaly L" (@vitalyl1327) on "Is Programming Stealing Your Life Away?" video.

To be fair, most CRUD flows are so badly written, so broken, that you'd wish the more competent engineers had to work on CRUD (obviously, it's very hard to convince them to do so).
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Even 9-5 is an exaggeration, nobody works 8 hours a day focused non-stop. The real productive or simply focused hours count is 2-4 a day at most.
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@FreeStyleKid777 since your learning benefits your current employer too, you just need to do it in your paid 9-'5 time. Use a better time management and pay attention to your current mental state, and select the right activity for a moment. If you feel productive and able to focus - do your work (tickets from backlog, whatever else), if you're a bit tired and foggy - do some light learning to freshen up, if you're out of executive points for today - do admin and such.
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@vulpixelful knowledge of tooling du jour is useless without a fundamental knowledge, and results in those broken systems and utter mess we're all in now. And for those who have fundamental knowledge, all those tiny puny details, like the current tooling and "best practices" are easy to pick up.
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Working hard is the sure way to be less productive than those who work chill. And it is your productivity that determines your career, not your perceived effort or hours wasted.
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@vulpixelful and I am saying that it would have been much better if they actually had a deep and profound CS knowledge and a mathematical mindset. The current CRUD developers skillset is inadequate.
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