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> But the average developer, writing most line-of-business CRUD systems, well, quite honestly they're not that strong to begin with. This is a wild take. Devel
by s1mplicissimus 1y ago
> But the average developer, writing most line-of-business CRUD systems, well, quite honestly they're not that strong to begin with.
This is a wild take. Developers don't usually get to pick the system they work on, resource constraints exist during development time. We make tradeoff decisions every day and pulling in a "cheap" dependency will often make the difference between a shipped, working piece of software and plain "nothing".
You seem to be fairly little involved in actual software development, considering how generic and wrong this take is.
- resonious 1y agoWhen looking at CVs and interviewing actively, it's honestly very easy to believe the quoted claim. Of course I work with some very skilled folks on line-of-business CRUD too so who knows.
- tbrownaw 1y agoIsn't the industry still growing pretty quickly? If five years is enough to count as "senior", most won't be that good just because they haven't had time to get good yet. And any segment that's big enough or low enough margin won't be able to escape that average.
- sgarland 1y agoThe problem, IMO, is that the trade-offs seem to always land on the side of “what ships faster.” That may well be the fault of PMs rather than SWEs, but either way, it doesn’t usually make for a sustainable product.