justin․searls․co

Some programmers are bad at their jobs

After 15 years of sugar-coating it, I'm upgrading from kid gloves to… regular gloves, I guess?

The truth is and has always been:

  1. That the best way to get better at programming computers is to spend time programming computers
  2. That a lot of people don't do this, but expect the same salaries as those that do
  3. That one highly-competent developer can often run laps around entire software teams at the typical company

I'm done pretending this isn't true.

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