alt Hacker News> slap together temperature converters and insecure twitter clones
because those "best programmers" don't want to be making temperature converters nor twitter clones (unless they're paid mega bucks). This enables the low paid "worst" programmers to do those jobs for peanuts.
It's an acceptable outcome imho.
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delusional • yesterday at 7:01 AM
But do we actually need more temperature converters? Maybe it would be better if they were hard to make such that people didn't waste their time, and the bad programmers went out and did some yard work.
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Let's assume that I'm closer to best programmers than worst programmers, for a second; I definitely will build a temperature converter, at my usual hourly rate. I don't think we should consider any task "beneath us", doing so detaches us from reality, makes us entitled, and ultimately stumps our growth