[jamesknelson]

Reading this, I found myself nodding along after I replaced:

- musician to developer

- online music to open source project

- performance to consulting/training/conferences

It’s funny thinking about all the similarities between the two.

[username90]

The main difference is that you can't easily substitute one piece of code for another leading to little reuse and huge demand for custom solutions. Songs on the other hand mostly substitute fine within genres, we could stop producing music entirely and people would still have more than enough music to keep them happy.

[dajohnson89]

disagree. part of what makes art valuable is its commentary on the human experience. which is changing every day.

[hootbootscoot]

what a dismal dark musical world this invokes. I suppose this works for people who don't actually listen to music in any sort of appreciably observant fashion.

I get that some people basically just vibe along with music and don't hear the harmonic movement, the intervals, the tones of the instruments.

This point of view gives zero credence the possibility of any actually original music.

[yourtpmpackager]

>the harmonic movement, the intervals, the tones of the instruments

Are you a boomer? These days nobody respectable listens to music where those things are present and IMO that's a good thing.

[taylodl]

What music are you listening to that doesn’t have harmonic movement or intervals?

[nabla9]

Software business is service business pretending to be manufacturing business.

[dehrmann]

But there's a shortage of developers, and there's a big difference between building what FAANG wants you to build and what you want to build.

A better analogy is up-and-coming musicians and startups. You struggle in a garage until you're discovered, then you sign away most of your rights for bad working conditions and a three-year run.