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(This comment is focused mainly on web developers.) It's a young and immature field. The clients are usually ignorant of the requirements and the level of qual
by coderdude 16y ago
(This comment is focused mainly on web developers.)
It's a young and immature field. The clients are usually ignorant of the requirements and the level of quality to expect. This breeds a lot of half-ass developers and snake oil salesmen. I've personally known a few people who called themselves "web designers" but the work they create is God awful. Get-rich-quick types tend to want to jump on board to milk money from people. Web development is a great field for those kind of people. SEO is another.
- rewind 16y agoActually, I think the field is pretty mature at this point. I think it's more an issue of that fact that the barrier to entry is so low and that if someone has a hard time identifying a bad developer, they'll have a hard time identifying a good one too.
- coderdude 16y agoI'm framing that statement in perspective to almost all other imaginable fields of work. I'll concede that it may not be the cause for all the bad developers -- low barrier to entry seems like a much more likely cause, but I do not believe that this field has matured yet. Almost no one on the planet was selling web development services just 18 years ago, so it stands to reason that the field is not very mature yet. At least in my opinion.