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by jghn 3538 days ago
I think your percentages are too low. IMO it's more like 95-97% of businesses are 99-100% served by what you describe as a trade programmer.

The problem is that it seems that 90+% of shops think they're 0% served by trade programmers.
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jdmichal 3538 days ago
Sure; 87.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot anyway. [0] It will also vary greatly depending on your business scale. Google needs computer scientists; at their scale any efficiency slip is very costly. For the local small business looking to turn their Excel spreadsheet sitting on a shared network drive into a CRUD app, a trade programmer or two is probably entirely sufficient.

[0] Yes, you heard me right! 91.4% of all statistics are made up at the very moment!

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sportanova 3536 days ago
Unless you're actually building a database or something like Kafka it's way more useful to have someone that knows how to use a debugger and a profiler
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