> From my friends, working in small startups and large megacorps, no one is working on anything other than gluing existing packages together,
And all my friends aren't doing that. So there's some anecdotal evidence to contradict yours.
And I think you're missing the point.
The point is the field is way bigger than either of us could imagine. You could have decades of experience and still only touch a small subset of the different technologies and problems.
> Well I know for a fact there are more code monkeys than rocket scientists working on advanced technologies
I don't know what this means as it doesn't disprove that fact that the field is enormous. Of course not everyone is working on rockets. But that is irrelevant.
> 50% of their job consist of bullshitting the n+1 to get a raise and some other variant of office politics
Again, this doesn't mean we aren't working on different things.
I actually totally agree with this point made in your previous post:
> "developers" is such a broad term that it basically is meaningless in this discussion
But your follow-up feels antogonistic to that point.
And all my friends aren't doing that. So there's some anecdotal evidence to contradict yours.
And I think you're missing the point.
The point is the field is way bigger than either of us could imagine. You could have decades of experience and still only touch a small subset of the different technologies and problems.
> Well I know for a fact there are more code monkeys than rocket scientists working on advanced technologies
I don't know what this means as it doesn't disprove that fact that the field is enormous. Of course not everyone is working on rockets. But that is irrelevant.
> 50% of their job consist of bullshitting the n+1 to get a raise and some other variant of office politics
Again, this doesn't mean we aren't working on different things.
I actually totally agree with this point made in your previous post:
> "developers" is such a broad term that it basically is meaningless in this discussion
But your follow-up feels antogonistic to that point.