Granted I'm new to devops, only been on a platform team for about 9 months now, but I still feel incredibly dumb every time I try to work with it.

That being said, we're also layering a bunch of stuff on top - helm, nginx, GKE, terraform, as well as a mountain of other things, and then to top it off we have a bunch of shell scripts doing random things to help tie it all together.

Normally I can pick things up pretty quickly. I just built a parser with tree-sitter, despite knowing virtually nothing about language design. Didn't take very long.

But the modern devops stack is a learning curve like I've never seen before. It's taking me more energy to learn it than it did for me to learn programming itself. Then again, maybe I'm just getting old.