I'd love your take on this @vgr. Developer Hegemony uses Gervais Principle as explanatory backbone cc @daedtechhttps://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/913735355781795841 …
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Replying to @fortelabs @daedtech
Yeah, Erik sent me a preview copy, so familiar with the argument :) There's definitely an economic pressure/incentives towards mercenary end
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I have a feeling though that there's a poorly understood force acting in the other direction: the desire to work on ambitious things
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The very best developers tend not to go mercenary. They tend to stay missionary and work at big corps that can do things small ones can't.
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And others sometimes choose to stay because they want to work with the A+ missionaries. Efficiencer work is not as satisfying a big mission
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100% agree. Also most efficiencer type work is pretty boring/easy if you're a great developer.
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Is there seriously no ambitious original work done by freelance software devs? Most ambitious writing is done by free agents
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no sure, it definitely happens. Just ambitious software work generally requires considerable funding so generally happens at large companies
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Ambitious software (barring exceptions like bitcoin) need vast datasets, cloud-scale compute ($$$), PhD colleagues versed in esoterica etc.
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The analogy to writing is false. Software is fundamentally a systems-and-teams sport. A better analogy is to legal institutions
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Think s/w that runs a Boeing airliner, or stack that runs an autonomous car fleet, or the power grid. 90% of important code is of that sort
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