Ghost Engineers: Friendly Spirits Or Free Labor?
Ghost engineers: not lazy, but undervalued. They're the ones who keep code clean, dependencies in check & infrastructure secure. Let's stop RIFing them & start paying them what they're worth.
I see people are still talking about “ghost” engineers. I have opinions. But a quick recap. I saw a random tweet. No supporting data. Stanford. 10% of eng don’t write enough lines of code. Ergo they have no value. You can RIF them. Ok, I think I just took the sentiment to its logical conclusion but you get the point. So let’s talk about ghosts. I grew up at a time where you had ghosts talking to us through the tv and telling us to go into the light. I think we can all agree, those are the bad ghosts. I read a book by Nora Roberts called The Mirror. That’s the best divide I can think of betwee...