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> A superstar can outperform maybe 3-4 juniors but that's about it. The jobs isn't that hard and there are only so many hours in a day. There do exist (I would
by aleph_minus_one 2y ago
> A superstar can outperform maybe 3-4 juniors but that's about it. The jobs isn't that hard and there are only so many hours in a day.
There do exist (I would even claim "quite some") jobs/programming tasks where superstars are capable of, but a junir developer will at least need years of training to be able so do/solve them (think, for example, of turning a deep theoretical breakthrough in (constructive) mathematics into a computer program; or think of programming involving deep, obscure x86 firmware trivia), but I agree with your other judgement that such programming tasks are not very common in industry.
- ifyoubuildit 2y agoYou don't even need to go to rocket science for this. 3-10 juniors can make a massive expensive mess of a crud app that costs $x0k a month in amazon spend and barely works, while someone who knows what they're doing could cobble it together on a lamp stack running under their desk for basically nothing. Knowledge/skills/experience/ can have massive impact.
- jjav 2y ago> 3-10 juniors can make a massive expensive mess of a crud app that costs $x0k a month in amazon spend and barely works, while someone who knows what they're doing could cobble it together on a lamp stack running under their desk for basically nothing. Yes! Absolutely. It will be faster and more reliable and an order of magnitude (or more) cheaper. Alas, I'm slowly (grudginly and very slowly) coming to terms accepting that absolutely nobody cares. Companies are happy to pay AWS 100K/mo for that ball of gum that becomes unresponsive four times a day, rather than pay for one expert to build a good system.