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What about oncall? What about fixing bugs, or KLO, or security patches, or devops, or tweaking feature flags, or dealing with customers? If you're 100% allocat
by daxfohl 1y ago
What about oncall? What about fixing bugs, or KLO, or security patches, or devops, or tweaking feature flags, or dealing with customers?
If you're 100% allocated to a greenfield project that's behind closed doors until 2027, sure. But it doesn't seem like most software engineers are in that bucket. If anything, the industry has been consistently moving further away from that, with more agile methods, tighter feedback loops, etc.
- saltcured 1y agoRight, many software jobs are more like being a janitor or repairman. Or even more of a personal assistant or retail worker who is providing ephemeral service to another participant in the whole organization.
- daxfohl 1y agoThough put that way, it seems hard to rationalize high salaries for software roles where this tax deduction would apply. Granted, supply-and-demand, but still.
- LorenPechtel 1y agoWhy? Just because it's mostly maintenance doesn't mean it isn't a high skill job.
- daxfohl 1y agoGood point. One could say a doctor is the same job as a mechanic, but that doesn't capture the whole story.