Rethinking the Developer Career Path
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Argues career progression should measure autonomy not years and defines three concrete stages: Implementer, Solver, Finder. Gives concrete work examples — a monitoring/alert UI at Netflix supporting ~100 million customers, a bootcamp that turns novices into junior engineers, and a Kafka-based stream processing system built in about a month to route email attachments to malware teams — it ships and works though the company later collapses, showing what each stage actually builds and who can own it.
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