for Alice, and possibly also Bob, yes, their career advancement is most likely from software developer to product manager or technical lead, to VP of engineering somewhere.<p>for Clyde, definitely not. Clyde really loves coding as an end unto itself. his career advancement is probably getting picked up as a &quot;unicorn&quot; at a quant trading hedge fund, or joining a project that is coding low-level technology infrastructure at a big tech company like Goog&#x2F;Msft&#x2F;FB&#x2F;Oracle&#x2F;whatever.