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I left when project managers tried to Taylorize programming.

Hear, hear. I find that process like Agile is exhausting, but necessary work, when you cannot trust your workers.

I miss working at a small shop where we were fully trusted to deliver. I find I am able to do very well under Agile, but it certainly makes me feel dishonest that such a measurable portion of my day is spent measuring my performance. It feels like a fractal waste of time.

But I completely understand why it exists.

I can't figure out how I ended up completing an advanced degree (one that that takes a lot of study to complete), and have decades of experience in a profession that supposedly is hard to find people for, yet still find myself putting up with a bi-weekly "end of sprint" why-didn't-you-finish-your-sprint-commitments berating from somebody with less education and less experience than me. I feel like saying that I've wasted my life would be an understatement.

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