[thephyber]

He may have made a good living, but his customer / employer bought low quality code with lots of tech debt.

That business model only works until customers are sophisticated enough to understand tech debt. In the future, more customers will be less willing to pay the same good wages for low quality code.

[throwaway2037]

    > but his customer / employer bought low quality code with lots of tech debt.

Sarcastic reply: Isn't that most tech? Even good (above average) developer produce lots of tech debt and sometimes low quality code.

[b112]

"Webdev" makes me think of wordpress, which is like planting 20 onions in your backyard, and comparing yourself to a farmer with acres of crops.

I can completely believe someone had no idea what they were doing when copy/pasting, and working on wordpress.

[datavirtue]

Yeah, and the business people could not care less. I am on a team taking in millions of dollars from a Delphi Windows app from 1997. Zero tests, horribly mangled business logic embedded in UI handlers. Maintaining that app is not feasible. I'm rebuilding a modern version of it only because it is embarrassing to demo and is such a UX nightmare that our distributor made us commit to a new app.