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Don’t we get paid the big bucks precisely because we have to fix stuff like this? I mean, if maintaining and fixing software were easy, I guess we wouldn’t be e
by dakiol 3y ago
Don’t we get paid the big bucks precisely because we have to fix stuff like this? I mean, if maintaining and fixing software were easy, I guess we wouldn’t be earning 6 figures.
In software engineering We have all these principles and patterns and whatnot precisely because we have to deal with a pile of things that don’t work well together.
- fwip 3y agoI think our outsized compensation is less because it's hard, and more because of our industry. In tech companies, labor is a relatively small expenditure, so tripling your labor budget to get 5% more "output" can be a very rational thing to do. (Also, the Mythical Man Month means that a smaller, sharper team is often more useful to solve your task than a bigger one.)