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It certainly can apply to ICs too. The scope and complexity of projects increases with seniority until they fall beyond the innate capacity of your brain. As a
by MontyCarloHall 4y ago
It certainly can apply to ICs too. The scope and complexity of projects increases with seniority until they fall beyond the innate capacity of your brain.
As an extreme example, suppose the spectrum of software IC spans writing simple CRUD apps as a Junior Engineer to singlehandedly writing qemu and ffmpeg as an 10x Rockstar Ninja Principal Engineer. At some point most people (who aren’t Fabrice Bellard or John Carmack) will be promoted into a role where they simply can’t keep up intellectually.
- amboo7 4y agoWhat's the job position of Fabrice Bellard?
- MontyCarloHall 4y agoHe appears to be co-founder and CTO of Amarisoft, which makes wireless telecom software [0]. Given that he’s posted telecom-related software to his personal website [1], I am sure that he is the sort of CTO who still also acts very much as an IC. [0] https://www.amarisoft.com/about-us/ https://www.amarisoft.com/about-us/ [1] https://bellard.org/lte/ https://bellard.org/lte/