It's true that coding could become commodity for application building. Mission critical systems will never become commodity because what they actually sell is reliability and quality. Code volume has never been the bottleneck if you've ever worked on mission critical systems.
@pmarca Yes, like late stage Google folks. True alpha is so rare that companies actively hide it and tell nonsense stories about why they succeeded.
That leads later stage employees to draw all kinds of bad lessons.
I feel a bit out of touch with current fashions, because a couple days ago an Indian founder in the current batch asked if he should base the company in SF or India, and I said the Indian startup community seemed to be thriving and it would be fine if he wanted to go back.
@VicVijayakumar Kernighan’s law: “You need to be twice as smart as the person who wrote the code in order to debug it”. Don’t put yourself in a position to have to outsmart yourself.
Duplicated string in some code.
New developer: "Approved."
Mid-experienced developer: "This violates DRY and should be extracted to a constant."
Experienced developer: "Approved."
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