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John Dugan put it well, in a sad sort of way. http://coroutine.com/blog/3-The-Promotion-Problem

"Traditionally, programmers are offered two career paths. They can become managers (a CTO track) or senior programmers (an architect track). The problem is both tracks terminate in roles that many programmers don't want. One path leads to pure management, the other to systems design work. Where do programmers who actually want to program go?

"Elsewhere."





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