Writing as an individual is much more potent than programming as an individual. In fact writing as an individual is often the best way to do it. Programming as

Writing as an individual is much more potent than programming as an individual. In fact writing as an individual is often the best way to do it. Programming as an individual is often the worst way to do it, your projects are often bound in scope of what they can do. Yes amazing programmers in the past have written beautiful and feature-rich software. But the matter of the fact is, more programmers == bigger problems become solvable. Why is Google Maps so good? Because thousands of people work on it. The amount of impact any one coder has on Google Maps is tiny. That's why I don't want to be a coder when I'm 50. I want to solve large problems that require large human efforts. The bandwidth code gives me is simply too little.