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If you've started your own thing, will your own thing use code? If so, why not continue writing code? If your goal is to hire people to write code, ask yourse

by fridif 5y ago

If you've started your own thing, will your own thing use code? If so, why not continue writing code? If your goal is to hire people to write code, ask yourself if you are capable of doing it better. Nobody is better able to cut through the bs in software these days than you, the business owner, and your customers-- the ones who pay you to survive.

dathinab 5y ago
> If your goal is to hire people to write code, ask yourself if you are capable of doing it better. If a startup is successfully and can effort/manages to hire some senior dev with 10+ years of prefessional experience then the founder is unlikely to be able to do it better. > Nobody is better able to cut through the bs in software these days than you, the business owner, and your customers-- the ones who pay you to survive. Expect the people you hire explicitly to "cut through the bs in software" which in difference to you don't have to bother will all the other stuff like a founder gets involved with (like anything from finding venture capital, over "general" business decisions to the direction of personal management). > If so, why not continue writing code? Because if you create a startup and it becomes somewhat successfully (lets say it scaled to 20 people) then you don't have much time to code anymore. --- A a startup Founder, CEO, CTO etc. understanding the difficulties of software development is a super use-full skill especially if you can notice if there is something wrong with the decisions (or outcomes) of your dev Team. But knowing about software development and doing it isn't the same and once you have a company size where you don't need to directly do any programming the programming skill itself will become useless (through not the general things you learned about the process of software development).

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If you've started your own thing, will your own thing use code? If so, why not continue writing code? If your goal is to hire people to write code, ask yourse

by fridif 5y ago

dathinab 5y ago
> If your goal is to hire people to write code, ask yourself if you are capable of doing it better. If a startup is successfully and can effort/manages to hire some senior dev with 10+ years of prefessional experience then the founder is unlikely to be able to do it better. > Nobody is better able to cut through the bs in software these days than you, the business owner, and your customers-- the ones who pay you to survive. Expect the people you hire explicitly to "cut through the bs in software" which in difference to you don't have to bother will all the other stuff like a founder gets involved with (like anything from finding venture capital, over "general" business decisions to the direction of personal management). > If so, why not continue writing code? Because if you create a startup and it becomes somewhat successfully (lets say it scaled to 20 people) then you don't have much time to code anymore. --- A a startup Founder, CEO, CTO etc. understanding the difficulties of software development is a super use-full skill especially if you can notice if there is something wrong with the decisions (or outcomes) of your dev Team. But knowing about software development and doing it isn't the same and once you have a company size where you don't need to directly do any programming the programming skill itself will become useless (through not the general things you learned about the process of software development).