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"I suspect that a significant source of programmers flooding into management is the decreasing wavelength of full scale re-education on how to accomplish the ex
by tejohnso 8y ago
"I suspect that a significant source of programmers flooding into management is the decreasing wavelength of full scale re-education on how to accomplish the exact same thing slightly differently with diminshing returns on tangible benefits."
Wow. I'm curious to see how others are interpreting this sentence.
I've got:
I suspect many developers opt to move on to management largely because of frustration with having to learn new abstractions with increasing frequency and decreasing benefit.
- NTDF9 8y agoI agree. Most of software engineering has turned into resume driven development, and engineers can only keep up at it for some time. Kubernetes did not have to be so complicated. Docker swarm just proved it. If it takes 10 engineers to really program and manage your kubernetes instances, what problem did it solve again?