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by quantummkv
2206 days ago
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> What I'm trying to say is, these days its quicker to go from Level Zero to Level One, even if that means you've shot yourself in the foot going from Level One to Level Two. I see this a lot as well. And frankly it scares me. It should not be very easy or quicker to go from Zero to One at the expense of footgunning One to Two and beyond. Practices and culture are easily learned when you are just starting. And those practices stay with you till the end. It is very difficult to unlearn something, especially when you learned it while starting out as it becomes a kind of second nature. Those practices might not harm when you are making basic sites or demo apps in your spare time. But when an engineer with these practices goes to work on something like the software for controlling Teslas, it suddenly becomes a big problem. In my view, it is better to take some time to make a solid foundation than to quickly make a leaning tower of software that could, in these days of software in everything, lead to catastrophe. |
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Well, the reality is that most businesses only need basic sites and you don't need trained engineers to build them. Basic developers can do it as well and giving them the tooling to do so helps.
There is a lot of value in making programming for "basic" stuff like a CRUD web/mobile app about learning to use tools rather than learning to understand the whole system (i.e. programmer vs engineer).
A comparison I really like: To build a house, you need one engineer for statics, but a lot of construction workers actually putting it together. And even that one engineer for the statics is more for safety than actually necessary, if you build some basic house with the basic default material. Because it's proven over and over again that it holds and the margin for errors is quite large before there is any risk of collapse.