Why does it take so long to build software? (2020)
It&#x27;s because most software developers add negative value. Most not them aren&#x27;t investing in learning at all and are just playing around and understanding things on the surface level. I&#x27;m fairly certain it takes much more learning and effort to keep up to date as an accountant than a software engineer.<p>I&#x27;ve been getting into elixir and was very sad to realise that a lot of the best practices have been enshrined into the erlang otp library for 20 years and we&#x27;ve forgotten about it.<p>Think how many engineers you know that can reason well about db indexes or could implement something like redis given enough time.<p>On the one hand it&#x27;s fairly depressing, on the other hand it makes sense from the incentive structure - business people treat them like &quot;nerds&quot; they&#x27;re not on the same career path as someone in management, PMs come from weird professions that have nothing to do with software and are focussing on weird scrum processes and jira tickets...<p>At least that has been my experience. I&#x27;ve seen massive amounts of wasted resources that has made me a bit jaded