Remember some of the hot-button issues in tech over the last decade? People angry over the use of the word "passion". The merits of "craftsmanship". Whether the "10x developer" is a myth.
Something connects all of these debates, and nobody's really talking about it. That's why I wrote this essay: https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2023-07-12-the-looming-demise-of-the-10x-developer/
@searls in fact, I think there are more millennials treating programming like a hobby/passion than I can ever recall encountering in my career. Open source and the web gave many more opportunities than were taken away imo
But perhaps the disadvantage of being an old programmer is forgetting the old days
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> it’s not altogether unreasonable to speculate that enthusiast programmers may, in aggregate, outperform professional programmers who hang up their keyboard at the end of each shift.
This is one of the uncomfortable truths. You don’t have to be an enthusiast programmer to work in this industry (👈 let’s stress that!) but you are often competing (hiring, performance reviews, promotions) with those who are—and you’ll lose
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