<story><title>Build full “product skills” and you&apos;ll probably be fine</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1637087219591659520</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwillu</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s like telling a musician to become a DJ because the point of performing is to entertain people.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not wrong, but it&amp;#x27;s also not applicable to all people who enjoy performing an instrument.</text></item><item><author>choppsv1</author><text>I love to code, as much as I loved math in college, but coding paid better and I&amp;#x27;m pretty good at it. Those were my choices though b&amp;#x2F;c I want to do something I love. Sure, I keep my eye on the &amp;quot;Delivered Value&amp;quot; by making sure I engineer solutions to real problems, but I&amp;#x27;ve never wanted to move out of coding and into managing engineers to build stuff. I want to code. It seems to me that the advice given here would be more applicable to someone who only coded long enough to move into engineering management -- anyway something about it bugs me and I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;d follow it exclusively even if I was starting today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s more like telling a DJ in the 80s, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t worry that mixing vinyls won&amp;#x27;t be a thing forever. It&amp;#x27;s not about the tools but about the product, as a DJ your job is to mix good music and you can do that with vinyls, cassettes or with MP3s.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Build full “product skills” and you&apos;ll probably be fine</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1637087219591659520</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwillu</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s like telling a musician to become a DJ because the point of performing is to entertain people.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not wrong, but it&amp;#x27;s also not applicable to all people who enjoy performing an instrument.</text></item><item><author>choppsv1</author><text>I love to code, as much as I loved math in college, but coding paid better and I&amp;#x27;m pretty good at it. Those were my choices though b&amp;#x2F;c I want to do something I love. Sure, I keep my eye on the &amp;quot;Delivered Value&amp;quot; by making sure I engineer solutions to real problems, but I&amp;#x27;ve never wanted to move out of coding and into managing engineers to build stuff. I want to code. It seems to me that the advice given here would be more applicable to someone who only coded long enough to move into engineering management -- anyway something about it bugs me and I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;d follow it exclusively even if I was starting today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twelve40</author><text>Yeah, but the original question was specifically about coding jobs, not hobbies, hence i think a reasonable business angle on the answer.</text></comment>