> in violent agreement. Violent agreements are lovely when they're sorted out by the market: at the moment, the best engineering talent I know would not be cau

> in violent agreement. Violent agreements are lovely when they're sorted out by the market: at the moment, the best engineering talent I know would not be caught dead working on (just as an example) PHP. There's simply no need to let your skills and salary stagnate when you can get paid more for working with the state of the art elsewhere. Demand is simply too high, and like anything, there's tradeoffs: you can get anyone to do anything for enough money. But "great talent," "cheap," "low autonomy," "fossilized tools," will require some compromise.