Software development should be about thinking, creating, solving problems, and yet a large percentage is grunt work that barely requires more than monkey intelligence.
In some ways we benefit. Sometimes its harder to replace us not just because of skill, but because of countless layers of byzantine and mundane information we’ve memorized about a system. It just not cost effective to stuff all of that crap into someone else’s brain if you don’t have to.
However whenever there is a way to reduce the cruft to productivity ratio, the power is staggering. That’s your “10x” developer right there, someone who gets to actually think a higher percentage of the time.
In some ways we benefit. Sometimes its harder to replace us not just because of skill, but because of countless layers of byzantine and mundane information we’ve memorized about a system. It just not cost effective to stuff all of that crap into someone else’s brain if you don’t have to.
However whenever there is a way to reduce the cruft to productivity ratio, the power is staggering. That’s your “10x” developer right there, someone who gets to actually think a higher percentage of the time.