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awareness and skillset. many don't have the awareness of the market nor the skillset to attack it.

• cellis 19y ago
  But theres another thing. Working on problems like that are boring. Nobody here wants to do that.
  • akeefer 19y ago
    Being that I build such systems for a living, from what I've observed you're pretty much right: the problems are boring in that they're not problems you the engineer care about solving, no one sees/cares about your work, and it's kind of a rough way to build software thanks to the terrible deployment model, long feedback cycles, etc. We make it better by focusing a lot on building infrastucture for building applications and trying to push the envelope technologically, which keeps it interesting, and by giving people autonomy to at least be creative in solving the business problems. But in general all the rockstar developers have better things to be doing than building enterprise systems, which just means there's less competition for those of us who do it.