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by Swizec
2218 days ago
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As someone who writes programming stuff, yes this! I avoid complete beginners and aim for junior to mid. The problem is that this is still a crazy fast growing field. Say we double in number every 5 to 10 years. That means at 5 years experience you are more experienced than half the industry. That’s mindboggling. Newbies also need more help and are more willing to pay for help. Oldbies only pay for help when entering a new area. Like a fortran engineer picking up React or a JS person getting into C++ One problem is that software engineering doesn’t quite value experience yet. Easier to throw 3 newbies at a problem than 1 senior who’s never seen this new tech anyway. The other issue is that engineers are smart and motivated by problem solving. They’d rather figure it out themselves than take all the fun out by just learning it like a normal person and reaping the rewards. Also advanced stuff often gets so in the weeds that only you and 50 of your friends in the whole world even care. Or it’s so specific to your company tht only other people at your company care. |
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I personally wouldn't wanting to be competing with all the other beginner material and sufficiently advanced material would take forever to produce.
But if there was a 100 page book on writing an Elixir/Phoenix app and deploying it on K8s across 4 cloud providers, using a CDN and Aerospike, I'd pay 50$ for that.