Developers In Revolt
A while ago Venkat wrote a a great article: Can "Tech" Die? , where he defined tech thus: "Tech is a growing agency pie, and a Techie could be defined as someone who is participating in a way that they’re gaining agency faster than secondary actors[finance, politics] can take it away." The "natural state" of the world, the world at rest, is: developers go to college and slave away getting CS degrees. They go to work for BigCorp and are managed by guys in suits. Nobody else knows how to program. This is a fairly stable system. But what if it gets disrupted? Developers can revolt in two different directions: up or down. They revolt up by playing their cards so as to get more agency within their organizations. At a recent technical interview, I--- Well, let's back up. If you've never had one, most technical interviews go like this: The interviewer(s) give you a relatively simple programming exercise. Then they say "Do ...