Do people accurately value devs. Yes. I keep good developers in my contact list and look to hire them or refer others to them when I have an opportunity or the

Do people accurately value devs. Yes. I keep good developers in my contact list and look to hire them or refer others to them when I have an opportunity or they need a job. If you're not seeing evidence of it, you're either not moving in hiring circles or you're not moving in developer circles that are distinguishing themselves through the quality of their work. The free market doesn't really judge things on a long term quality Of course it does. It judges long term quality exactly as much as it feels it needs to. Even the very best will make 'mistakes' Isn't that a given? Good hiring managers or purveyors of talent will take a long statistical view on the abilities of developers (or anyone else working for/with them).