[hnthrow289570]

Coasting is fine in a sane company. Coasting is a sign of competence IMO as long as your work is also getting done and things are fairly estimated. We should get to coast because we practiced enough to be good at our job.

There's way too many jobs where the only reward for finishing your work is more work.

However, I don't think hacker or punk rock culture can make a come back here because there's too large of a pool of people willing to work even for underpaid tech jobs (since it's often a relatively a lot of money for them)

[kevindamm]

The hacker culture doesn't have to be larger than the corporate workforce to have a significant impact on the industry and the world. That was proven in an earlier era, too.