Honestly, the longer I work in this industry the more I think the 10x developers are real and just so valuable. 90% of devs just aren’t worth that much.
I think current corporate culture is just toxic. It requires people to work in inadequate environment, in large dirty cities, without basic infrastructure like transportation, security and accomodation. 90% people would not be productive in this job.
>Honestly, the longer I work in this industry the more I think the 10x developers are real and just so valuable. 90% of devs just aren’t worth that much.
I don't disagree with this, but I also came to the conclusion that it is just raging against the machine to think that it is fixable. So long as there is money to be made, no barriers to entry, and no economic incentive to improve the situation, it will only continue to get worse. I'm of the same opinion now that I was in the 90s - the fix is to mature the discipline to a true profession of licensed, qualified, software engineers. But, it's a pipe dream to think that will ever happen in a meaningful way.