Brilliant once more, Dr. You have done it again.

Perhaps the only way to emulate Nietzsche in software development is to embrace the Grand Game. Did you seek the arena where you could claim the code warrior’s laurels? You've found it.

Do not let yourself be lured by the mirage of meaningful work and freedom from the grasp of telemetry. That is the true deception, a trick played by the foe to obscure your vision of the real war zone.

And yet Nietzsche didn't glorify war, but criticized it as a symptom of nihilism. So let's not take the game too seriously either.

Here's my psychological take on it:

https://sebastiancarlos.com/what-freud-thinks-about-your-javascript-functions-dfeec56246dc