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I imagine[0] that someday most companies will recognize the two tier market formally. Expert programmers would work in Lisp, ML or other Languages of Choice and
by Zak 16y ago
I imagine[0] that someday most companies will recognize the two tier market formally. Expert programmers would work in Lisp, ML or other Languages of Choice and create DSLs for the 9-5ers to use to write up all the boring details the business needs.
[0] Feel free to replace this with hope if you feel I'm overly optimistic.
- gfodor 16y agoYou've got it. The specifics tools & languages might be wrong but this is where things are headed.
- Kaizyn 16y agoThis is silly. There is no business incentive create a new labor category that can command high rates. Why would they want to make some programmers much harder to replace when they can stick with 9-5ers that are constantly replenished with new batches of college grads annually?
- Zak 16y agoBecause it costs less to pay one expert than 30 9-5ers, even if that expert is paid an order of magnitude more. It also provides better results in the form of fewer bugs, better performance and faster changes. Most better tech companies have figured this out already. I expect non-tech companies to figure it out eventually.
- huherto 16y agoIt has been my personal experience that companies can't really tell the difference between a good developer for standard applications and a top developer for complex applications. Often, the problem is that the main decision makers don't have a good reference to evaluate developer capabilities. The executives are not technical themselves and they don't have top technical people that can do the evaluation. It is also a problem of who evaluates the evaluator.