If there's one thing I have learnt , it is that you can make "simple" problems arbitrarily complex (and if you don't someone else will).
If all of our "CRUD apps" were truly just CRUD apps we would have built them all in 10 minutes with rails scaffold.
Re:Are coders worth it?
by nostrademons on Thursday June 06, 2013 @05:08PM
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There's complex technical work, and there's complex social work. The programmers who use a speech recognition API to solve a human problem - say, hands-free in-car navigation - are doing work that's every bit as difficult as building the speech recognition API in the first place. And they're often more highly compensated for it, if they succeed - it's just the risk structure of trying to match known technology to unknown problems is a lot more vague than trying to match unknown technology to known problems.
Re:Are coders worth it?
by LordHumungous on Thursday June 06, 2013 @11:00PM
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Don't underestimate the difficulty in making something not just work, but work well, and for millions of people.
It seems to me, and I may be wrong on this, that the complexity of the problems that most programmers are approaching doesn't scale on a 1:1 basis with the power of their tools.