The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I Started in the 80s

Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by adrianratnapala on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:34PM (#13925978)

I'd say that skill set is useful for the 10% of jobs where programmers are pretty close to being their own managers.

Really it is better if "product owners" (or whatever) could actually do their job and talk to clients to distil out requirements that are clear and achievable. After that, the kind of programmer right for the job depends on, well, the job.

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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by PeterisP on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:50PM (#13926092)

What clients? The vast majority of programmers and programming quantity happens in in-house functions in non-tech companies. There's no "product owners", there are business functions that need changes to their internal mess of stuff, so they hire programmers for that.

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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by adrianratnapala on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:06PM (#13926706)

But then it still depends on the size of that in-house programming organisation. If it is just a few guys, then the team lead needs to take on those roles as well as code. If it is larger, then there should be some specialisation and professionalism in the non-coding roles.

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