Exactly. It's easy enough to understand this applied to fast food, but I get the impression other industries would rather not believe it to be true. Thing is,

Exactly. It's easy enough to understand this applied to fast food, but I get the impression other industries would rather not believe it to be true. Thing is, I think it's clearly evidenced in tech by every "I went through two days of interviewing on algorithms and distributed systems to hack on PHP boilerplate?" story. Tech might go to the trouble to select for brilliance, but they aren't necessarily using or paying for it. Further it's readily admitted by folks like a16z [1]. "Thus software itself becomes the driving force of leveling the ability to write software to solve problems. This is a good thing: As software becomes a high-impact, low-skill trade, we decouple the technical ability and experience needed to write tricky software from the ability to solve problems for people." 1: http://a16z.com/2014/07/30/the-happy-demise-of-the-10x-engineer/ http://a16z.com/2014/07/30/the-happy-demise-of-the-10x-engin...