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A doctor can only see so many patients. A lawyer can only bill so many hours. A dev can make a product that a billion people use.
by lordnacho 1y ago
A doctor can only see so many patients. A lawyer can only bill so many hours.
A dev can make a product that a billion people use.
- oytis 1y agoCan they? Lots of well-paid devs were laid off in the recent years, where are the products with billions users they have made?
- lordnacho 1y agoNot every lottery ticket wins. But every one can.
- oytis 1y agoYeah, I mean, my comment can be read by billion people. But I don't think I deserve three figures for commenting, at least not until the comment has actually been read by billion people.
- fluoridation 1y agoPlenty of those developers did indeed work in projects with giant userbases. Layoffs are not about success or failure or how large the userbase is, they're about adjusting expenses and appeasing shareholders.
- oytis 1y agoYeah, I've seen really strong engineers being laid off. My point is that viewing software engineers as magic money cows is wrong, they don't make money by themselves - and those who do start their own companies and stop being software engineers.
- fluoridation 1y agoIt may not be "by themselves", but they're still a key component of the machine. Without the cows, you don't get any milk, no matter how many milkmen you have to sell it.
- oytis 1y agoYes, they are components in a machine, and if machine is generating N dollars per second, it doesn't mean that they are generating it. It's also perfectly reasonable to try to find components as cheaply as you can, and don't always go for highest-quality components if it doesn't have a significant effect on how machine is functioning.
- simgt 1y ago[flagged]
- tester756 1y agoWhat's wrong with it? That's foundational enabler of the software business growth - enoromous scaling potential.