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That's a web 2.0 mentality. In the dot-com days most programmers thought everything had a computer solution. With the big jump with people learning to code an
by alaskamiller 10y ago
That's a web 2.0 mentality.
In the dot-com days most programmers thought everything had a computer solution.
With the big jump with people learning to code and being able to build stuff themselves that they started looking and finding opportunities. Back then it was only a few million eyes and few hundred thousand with millions, now a days it's a few hundred million eyes and $100.
It'll only get worse with inflation. You have to compete 1.5x harder than 20 years before to keep up, so really you have to compete 2x harder to be ahead.
Looking for "real stuff" to improve with tech is so 2014, when everyone was pitching the Uber for X or Birchbox for X.
Here's a fun thought experiment: with "real stuff" comes real unit economics, meaning without magical exponential growth of low marginal costs of software to pad $250k comp packs for developers that means software developers and engineers in the middle are going to see their comp package normalize then drop.
- wtetzner 10y agoI don't think "real stuff" has to be physical things. I think Turbo Tax would count as software that aims to improve "real stuff".
- lumberjack 10y agoAnd what does a software developer have to do with developing a software like Turbo Tax? The technical part is mostly trivial. I honestly don't think it wise to go into any industry where you lack any kind of domain experience. Turbo Tax is mostly about accounting and tax law, not software development.
- wtetzner 10y agoAnd the technical part of Twitter is somehow non-trivial? I get what you're saying, but while developing software to handle "real stuff" might be more risky and more difficult, it's also going to have some real value. Also, I don't see how anyone could ever do anything without going into an industry without domain experience. How else will you gain experience?