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My conspiracy theory is that less than 100 people in the US actually know what they're doing and wrote the important code doing all the work and/or are keeping
by Consultant32452 4y ago
My conspiracy theory is that less than 100 people in the US actually know what they're doing and wrote the important code doing all the work and/or are keeping all of global IT sort of running. I am not one of those 100.
- closewith 4y agoThat's probably uncomfortably close to the truth. For sure, of all the code I've ever written, 124 lines I wrote for a previous startup that was acquired is responsible for 99.99% of the revenue that code I've written ever "earned".
- z9znz 4y agoI think you are just feeling impostor syndrome or attributing it to the general developer population. In reality, there's a lot of boring software which does its job and has meaningful value in companies. I am not a great developer; I get bogged down by needs for perfection or distaste of inelegant solutions (when I know the _must_ be a proper solution to be found). Even still, I get things done, and I periodically hear about old code I've written that is still valuable to the companies I wrote it for. So imagine what the good devs are doing! Also don't underestimate the immense developer effort that goes into making enormous, complex systems "work". These systems, and the developers working on them, are essential cogs in a big machine. That is not to say that hardly any software is correct or reliable. But on average, at least as we see evidenced by software failures only being periodic rather than constant, the many people behind most software must be doing a halfway decent job.