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> We could make an analogy to construction To borrow your analogy: A construction company that builds single level family homes can't build high rises. No mat
by sheepmullet 11y ago
> We could make an analogy to construction
To borrow your analogy:
A construction company that builds single level family homes can't build high rises. No matter how good the architect is.
Top developers can conceptualise and build products that 100 average developers couldn't achieve. Not to mention the large reverse economies of scale.
Case in point: I can get 1000 low skill Vietnamese developers for the same cost as 50 senior Valley developers. And yet for 90% of the work we do I'm better off with the 50 Valley developers.
- joeclark77 11y agoI'm not sure we disagree. When you say "conceptualize and build", you may be talking about a developer-in-the-role-of-designer or developer-in-the-role-of-entrepreneur. Certainly Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. were once developers, but they didn't get rich because they were employed as coders and got a bunch of merit pay raises. So I was simply speculating that there may be a "ceiling" on developer salaries, that is, salaries received for writing code.