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If you rarely write software then you are not moving towards mastery in engineering it. There is no such thing as a master painter who is primarily a manager of
by pbourke 6y ago
If you rarely write software then you are not moving towards mastery in engineering it. There is no such thing as a master painter who is primarily a manager of painters.
You can be a masterful manager, can deliver much more value than a single programmer, etc. But the engineering of software occurs primarily in the thinking about and directly working on it in its specifics.
- INTPenis 6y agoI see what you mean but it's more nuanced than that in my case. It's not like he turned 50 and suddenly stopped coding. I'm talking about a real nerd, a person who codes even on their free time. And he still writes code in other projects, he's a consultant, but in our project he's not touching any code, only advising. And he's 50+ now so he has 15 more years until retirement. Of course I've seen people here work beyond retirement because our field is so easy on the body.
- selimthegrim 6y agoJeff Koons likes to think he is