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You need to work with better engineers. Classically people got into software engineering because they liked writing code and they needed a way to pay the bills

• chii 2y ago
  > better engineers. a no-true-scotsman fallacy. A company should be able to build working software even without good engineers. Just like how TCP can deliver ordered packets over unreliable connections - you change the processes and systems to do it. Of course, you give up some things - such as speed and agility in that case. For most people, a job is a job. It's not something they want to dedicate their life to - that's for artists and craftsman, and not many people are of that ilk in the modern day.
• mlsu 2y ago
  Most software engineers especially now are definitively not plucky kids who just love computers. They are in it entirely for the money. It's a completely different kind of person, the motivation comes from a completely different place.
• baq 2y ago
  These people are the minority now. Everybody wants to hire them and they’re usually happily employed. Good luck.
  • com2kid 2y ago
    When I graduated (2006) it was still mostly that way, a few kids in it for the money tried to get a CS degree and failed out and changed majors. Most of the people I've had the pleasure of working with have a love for the craft. Sadly I understand that with how messed to the economy is now days, making a good living in a US costal city doing anything else but software is rather unrealistic...