Very few engineers are within a constant factor of one another. One person has the same title as another but everyone knows that person A does person B’s job i

Very few engineers are within a constant factor of one another. One person has the same title as another but everyone knows that person A does person B’s job in the shower. This is why serious companies use low key stock options or RSUs to pay person A 1000x more than person B. This stuff is hard, it’s all a gradient right? But Meta just whacked 10+ percent of staff in the biggest tech layoff ever and the street responded positively. Most people aren’t smart enough to do this shit, and efforts to democratize a field that should be more credentialed and regulated is why we keep fucking up as an industry. We have no (public) respect for the difference between the pros and the TypeScript dabblers.