"I know of many so called Technical leads who boast that they don't write code anymore, trying to imply that people who write code or who are good at tech stuff are generally incompetent people not deserving of progress."
very true, in fact I know a bunch of people who want to become tech lead so that they don't have to write any code. Such companies are surviving only due to $ - Rs conversion rates. People outsourcing work to such companies are bound to get hurt.
What I mean is, even if they manage to solve this problem with some tweaks, they will again hit the bottleneck in an year or two, so they should rethink their source code management
3x developer is equivalent to Triple-Core Processor...you will see the increase in performance but that won't be 3 times more, so I will pay accordingly.
They didn't create value, they figured out a way to purloin value out of the casinos. Every dollar they gained was a casino's loss.
Much of programming is indeed like that, especially in the finance industry, where your gain is usually someone else's loss. There does exist true value-creating programming though. Games are an easy one; presumably the reason a customer pays $10 or whatever for your game is that the customer perceives more than $10 in entertainment value.
very true, in fact I know a bunch of people who want to become tech lead so that they don't have to write any code. Such companies are surviving only due to $ - Rs conversion rates. People outsourcing work to such companies are bound to get hurt.