--- title: It’s All Bullshit | daily.dev description: Tech workers are not as productive as portrayed. Many software engineers work only a few hours a day. Google's founders-first mentality leads to a multitude of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-all-bullshit-ytgfzxh8n twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: It’s All Bullshit | daily.dev og:description: Tech workers are not as productive as portrayed. Many software engineers work only a few hours a day. Google's founders-first mentality leads to a multitude of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-all-bullshit-ytgfzxh8n og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YtgFzXh8n.png og:image:alt: It’s All Bullshit og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # It’s All Bullshit **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 14 min read · 56 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Tech workers are not as productive as portrayed. Many software engineers work only a few hours a day. Google's founders-first mentality leads to a multitude of failed projects and inefficient management. The platform economy relies on extracting profits through rents rather than productive labor. This business model hampers innovation in the tech industry. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@kyoukhana** · 3 upvotes > I think that big Tech will be changing a lot in the near future. **@eighteyes** · 1 upvotes > It's not just in tech, it's a crisis in human nature that the larger our organization gets, the more it succumbs to political torpor. We would be better served by 10,000 ramen profitable startups. **@thomashighbaugh** · 0 upvotes > If you think that's bad, dig into Keynesian economics a bit. I hate to say it, but its turtles (or I guess bullshit) all the way down. **@anupammahato** · 0 upvotes > As AI/ML field is getting bigger > others domains like web are less > interested compare to that so developers has less work to do in > the company like google or meta imo. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-all-bullshit-ytgfzxh8n) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"It’s All Bullshit","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-all-bullshit-ytgfzxh8n","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-all-bullshit-ytgfzxh8n"},"datePublished":"2023-11-29T06:01:41.173Z","dateModified":"2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z","description":"Tech workers are not as productive as portrayed. 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I hate to say it, but its turtles (or I guess bullshit) all the way down.","datePublished":"2023-12-23T22:34:56.709Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/YtgFzXh8n#c-CbdhcW21b","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Thomas Leon Highbaugh","url":"https://daily.dev/thomashighbaugh","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/32242061?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"As AI/ML field is getting bigger\nothers domains like web are less\ninterested compare to that so developers has less work to do in\nthe company like google or meta imo.","datePublished":"2023-12-30T04:57:23.276Z","dateModified":"2023-12-30T04:58:00.262Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/YtgFzXh8n#c-LuvdI2Xfc","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"RYGENN","url":"https://daily.dev/anupammahato","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--NHKdUCKa--/f_auto/v1709656768/avatars/avatar_pSlbas8cTri8IQ2qqcfpD"}}]} ```