Managers want employees to be fungible, so they hamper their employees. That points to a severe Principal-Agent problem. Why not ban programming altogether and

Managers want employees to be fungible, so they hamper their employees. That points to a severe Principal-Agent problem. Why not ban programming altogether and make them parrot the venerable ITIL corpus? The post is stunningly ignorant. Alan Kay points out that actual programming practice represents a tiny fraction of what is known. The answer isn't for managers to create Principal-Agent problems by dumbing down their employees, but hiring knowledgeable managers who recognize the abyss that separates the state-of-the art from industrial practice. Startups emerge from this gap in understanding.