Half My Life with Perl – By Randal Schwartz

Re:Half My Life with Perl – By Randal Schwartz by throwaway2037 on Thursday December 19, 2024 @01:50AM (#42459070)

    > reduction of the worker to a fungible interchangeable cog

I see this trope a lot on HN, and I don't understand it. All of the highest skilled developers that I have met are the quickest to adapt to new projects or technologies. To me, they look like a "fungible interchangeable cog".

And every solo dev that I ever met thinks they are God's gift to the world -- "tech geniuses". Most of them are just working on their own Big Ball o' Mud, just like the rest of us working on a team.

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Re:Half My Life with Perl – By Randal Schwartz by cjbgkagh on Thursday December 19, 2024 @08:15AM (#42461112)

If only the highest skill devs could quickly learn new projects then they are no longer interchangeable.

Your sampling of solo devs could very well be biased, similarly so could my sampling. Not working on a big ball of mud is a massive perk of being solo dev. It’s my company and I’ll refactor if I want to.

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