I get what you’re trying to say, but I’m not sure it makes sense.

I mean, that’s literally every field you’re not an expert in. And most of us are experts in less than one field.

You don’t know about medicine, car engines, electricity or tax laws, you have your guys for that. Even in our field, we have guys for databases, OSes, networking, because quite frankly nobody understands those really.

So I’m not sure what the point of your comment is. That having experts is good? Yeah, I guess? Did we need to have that reinforced?

I’m not sure what these things have to do with each other. How exactly would cryptography have prevented SBF, you know, a crypto bro.

God I hate cryptography so much for making me feel stupid every time I read anything about it.

I want to feel smat!

And that’s actually part of the problem: your title doesn’t mean anything.

Not that you’re not leading, but what “lead” or “senior” actually means is completely arbitrary.

In one project I’m lead in, I wrote maybe 5 lines of actual code, because I was in meetings, wrote documentation, did release management (well, I wrote pipelines here, but that’s like 200 lines), etc. The actual leg work was done by 4 or five other guys.

But in another project, I’m lead of myself and another bloke, of course I’m writing code in that one.

So it’s completely possible to have a bunch of guys with the “developer” tag on their title, but they’re not doing much developing.

Actually watch the video, you’re way too generous in your analysis.

The metric is essentially lines of code. That’s it.

So everyone who isn’t hacking away ultra verbose code is considered useless. Lead devs and architects often don’t write any code at all. They’re not unproductive.

Statistically speaking, a few of them definitely fucked up at some point and accidentally did the right thing. Or committed suicide.

If you want to get all philosophical (which is probably a bit too far, it’s George Lucas after all), you could make the argument that the downfall of the Republic is an example of a complacent, non-responsive governmental elite failing to react or even just recognize obvious problems.

The Jedi are just warrior monks and symptomatic for that. They didn’t bring her with them, because they don’t care about people that much. They are above the population and act more like demigods.

Usable quantum computers are just around the corner, just as nuclear fusion and world peace.