Re:Ask HN: Working with developers who can't code
by muzani on Sunday January 27, 2019 @10:48AM
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I've seen them thrive in startups too. The company was incompetent, made millions. Things regularly broke (enterprise!) but the startup was backed by one of the biggest accelerators in the region, CEO hung around a lot of influential groups, media covered them a lot.
They think income is slowing down because of AI, but it's really because they make bad software and are running out of customers.
But it's a very unsexy field and there are no new competitors.
If there is nothing you can do to remove them the best you can do to ignore them, separate yourself, or them from everyone else. If you care enough you can try to mitigate the damage they may do. If you are surrounded by these type of developers you may want to do what I did: find a job where you can actually learn from others. I recommend small businesses as they cannot afford to have these people.