The Illusion of Modern Java Development

You are not actually writing Java code anymore, you are just configuring magic annotations.

Seriously, half the job is just telling the compiler what to do with metadata.

You use Lombok so you never have to write a getter, setter, or constructor again.

You use Spring Boot and Dependency Injection so you never actually create objects with the new keyword.

You use Streams to avoid writing loops, even though debugging them is a total

nightmare. It feels like cheating, but once you realize that the framework does the heavy lifting

and you just manage the annotations, you will finally understand modern backend development.