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by otabdeveloper4 352 days ago
> Writing code was the bottleneck years ago.

No it wasn't. It never was.
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afiodorov 352 days ago
If you're hiring 16 year olds just because of their ability to write code sounds like you're bottlenecked by writing code. Your comment doesn't clarify why you disagree.
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otabdeveloper4 351 days ago
> hiring 16 year olds just because of their ability to write code

They weren't. They were hired because of their ability to deliver software products. Huge difference.

Every kid who mechanically copied BASIC games from a magazine could "write code", but they weren't Bill Gates.

(Anyways Bill Gates was hired because of nepotism, but that's irrelevant here.)

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