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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by nightsd01 on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:51PM (#18962035)
The problem with this argument is that programmers don’t work alone in a vacuum. How do you account for the support staff? The recruiter that hired you? The cleaning lady? The DevOps people? And so on.

It’s avtually fairly non-trivial to be able to say with even a modicum of certainty how much value a given developer brings to their company.

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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by pmiller2 on Monday January 21, 2019 @03:36PM (#18963393)
This is precisely my point! Thank you for getting it and explaining it.

I currently write software used by millions of people. Partly because I’m a backend engineer, I have no real idea how much more the company is making due to my direct efforts. Since they keep paying me, I’m assuming it’s a decent multiple of my carrying cost, but I have no way to measure it.

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