It’s generally held that Pareto applies to a lot of things you wouldn’t assume it does.
But in this case I think Sturgeon’s Law is better: 90% of everything is crap. This is a journeyman or lower understanding of development (how old is the author? Should they know better?). In fact I’ll assert that he has it exactly backward, and that 80% of code you write only provides 20% of your value.
Only code monkeys provide 80% of their value from flow state. And Code Monkeys always feel underpaid because they think writing code is their entire value., and which is a slippery slope to thinking more code is better.
But in this case I think Sturgeon’s Law is better: 90% of everything is crap. This is a journeyman or lower understanding of development (how old is the author? Should they know better?). In fact I’ll assert that he has it exactly backward, and that 80% of code you write only provides 20% of your value.
Only code monkeys provide 80% of their value from flow state. And Code Monkeys always feel underpaid because they think writing code is their entire value., and which is a slippery slope to thinking more code is better.