Dan Luu on Nostr: I find it interesting that it's standard advice that, if you value your career, you ...

I find it interesting that it's standard advice that, if you value your career, you shouldn't work in a cost center or on maintenance.

This seems fairly obviously untrue? As this commenter points out, SREs can and often do have great careers. They seem to be one of the 2 dissenting comments out of 186 total comments!

I was in a cost center at Twitter and this seemed fine? I was a fairly new programmer (I had one year of professional programming experience and was previously a hardware eng), so