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Stop making me justify my paycheck

I don't want a yearly performance review. I don't want to spend two hours filling out a form about my "top accomplishments" like I forgot what I worked on all year. You saw the work. You paid me. That was the agreement.

I also don't want to invent five ways I should magically do more next year for the same money. If I mess up, tell me when it happens. If I'm doing fine, stop asking me to write essays about it.

Let me just enjoy the holidays and leave me be!

The article this links to is interesting enough, but what's really interesting is some of the discussion about how people do, or think people should, approach keeping electronic lab notebooks.

I feel you can tell which are the comments from software developers who don't really appreciate the requirements; they are, understandably, the ones who focus on change histories and the like, without picking up on the fact that generally you don't ever want people going back and changing anything.

As someone who works with people who need to deal with this, it's an interesting read and follows a lot of my journey from ignorance on the subject to some appreciation of the issues.

Having spent a few days finally taking an "agentic" approach to building a project, one thing I noticed was I didn't personally enjoy the process. I enjoyed the outcome, I enjoyed the result, but the actual process was a boring slog. I also felt that I was losing something too.

This covers this concern.