I enter 2025 with something of a crisis in faith about tech. I’m a programmer, but I never did this because I enjoy programming, particularly. It’s a means to an end, a tool for what I *actually* care about: creating the thing I want to exist. Many programmers I know are quite happy so long as they get to write code, regardless of what the end result is, but I’ve never been satisfied with that. And right now tech seems to be at a nadir, existing more as a financial instrument than an enabler