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Your frequent astonishment indicates you have not been writing code very long. I also suspect you also may have some combination of ADHD or ASD, which would explain both your necessary dependence on a tool for relevance as well as your hostile defensiveness. Either way, in the long run, you will have trouble sticking around because tools eventually get replaced.

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You will be gone faster than your head can spin my guy.

Execs will not put up with managers who are not going to use the best tools. I expect soon you will be forced to, or you're out.

Also, I've been writing code for over 20 years. I started programming LUA and ActionScript back in 2000 when I was 10 years old.

Your days are numbered old man.

If after 20 years you still have not figured out how this industry works, hope that tool evangelism will save your career, and cannot measure things you almost certainly have autism. If you are not already diagnosed I strongly recommend seeking an evaluation.

The reality of success in this industry has nothing to do with tools. Its all about KPIs (however your organization defines them), superior planning/communication skills, and leading people. The people that produce the most with the least maintenance overhead are the people most well rewarded. Simply just not getting fired is not a metric of success.

I literally won a corporate Innovation award last year at my company (that does $30B in revenue yearly) for some of the previous applications I put into production that I mentioned. Even got posted on LinkedIn where thousands of people liked it. I am also in a technical role that is not far removed from the C-Suite, reporting to a VP.

Your analysis couldn't be further from reality, except the ADHD part, lmao.

I have the industry figured out buddy, it's you who thought they did, but doesn't anymore.

Ah, yes, because money and internet likes are the most important factors in judging whether or not someone is right.

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