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Another uncomfortable truth: most software engineers beyond a few years' experience are highly resistant to suggestions for improvement in their craft. They're
by notacoward 5y ago
Another uncomfortable truth: most software engineers beyond a few years' experience are highly resistant to suggestions for improvement in their craft. They're more likely to use their intellectual/verbal skills to push back than to move forward.
- peruvian 5y agoTheir craft isn't important. They can just move up the income ladder by getting a new job every ~3 years without really improving.
- afarrell 5y agoDifferent people have different things they care about at different times. If I’m currently trying to improve my ability to do effective stakeholder interaction, I’m going to be reasonably resistant to switching to spending a bunch of time learning terraform.
- DerArzt 5y agoThe same could be said about all trades people (and yes I consider most software engineering a trade), there are those who care deeply about the quality of their work and improving that. Then there are those who get really comfortable and are fine with stagnating.