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Fernando Ayon

Great article! Surprised to see that it was published a year ago and no discussion yet. I fully agree on this. Meaning is everything but at the same time companies keep hiring developers to just develop, like human machines, you just have to produce, this is what is expected from new hirings.

Interestingly, this is also the reason why devs that start asking questions and really get invested in the domain part are more noticed by management and get promotions quickly.

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Ludovic Fleury

Thank you Fernando!

I really like to quote: "people think tech followed Darwin principle, but they don't remember that this theory is based on fitness and not greatness".

I'd also like to question the education system regarding IT. We teach the "how", barely the "what" and never the "why".

As a reminder, Windows 95, a full fledged OS, weighted 15 Mo. Now it's a classic JS bundle size in web frontend...