[jeffdavis]

"All you can contribute is what your own two hands can code."

The value of which has no obvious bound. The failure rate of software projects is huge and each failure can easily cost millions of dollars, or much more if it amounts to a product failure or business failure.

A single engineer's technical choices can easily make or break a project. It's hard to tell later which were the crucial choices, though.

[hinkley]

Yeah if I believed the line you quoted I’d be very depressed. Is this all their is?