Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
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Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#2Looking at Dana Lawson's career on linked in, it looks like they never spent time being an actual developer. Seems fitting that a completely out of touch elite in the US would make such statements.
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#3Being a Chief Technology Officer is no longer the job. We now need an end-to-end AI orchestrator for the corporation in the Chief Agentic Officer role. Dana Lawson is now obsolete and must be let go.
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#4Was it ever "the job" at a place like Netlify? Who cares?
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#5It was never the job as long as the profession was called "software engineer" and not "coder".
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#6Looking at Dana Lawson's career on linked in, it looks like they never spent time being an actual developer. Seems fitting that a completely out of touch elite in the US would make such statements.
When I was younger I used to assume that CTO was like the ultimate experienced engineer, and most every CTO I've dealt with in 25 years has been a needle scratch for that assumption.
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#7A CTO who doesn't understand what "the job" was. Classic.
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#8I wonder if code quality goes up if you include “as a rockstar ninja” in your prompt
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#9Looking at Dana Lawson's career on linked in, it looks like they never spent time being an actual developer. Seems fitting that a completely out of touch elite in the US would make such statements.
I wonder how many people saying similar things have the same background, but having said that she was VP of Engineering at GitHub, and VP of Engineering at Heptio.
Re: Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
#10Looking at Dana Lawson's career on linked in, it looks like they never spent time being an actual developer. Seems fitting that a completely out of touch elite in the US would make such statements.
When I was younger I used to assume that CTO was like the ultimate experienced engineer, and most every CTO I've dealt with in 25 years has been a needle scratch for that assumption.
There are competent CTOs who are not above getting their hands dirty, and there are career politician type CTOs who have no discernible skills beyond projecting an illusion of technical brilliance.
I've seen plenty of both, and I'm sure everything in between exists too.