It's about career growth. Most programmers (hope to) peak there.
You know those folks who peaked in high school? You look at them and feel sorry because that was as good as it got for them but tinged with a hefty dose of jealousy because you never had it that good then.
This is like that but in software terms. An individual contributor mostly works up to the point where they take on more than they can handle alone and are sometimes heroic. And some people, some really good ones, peak there.
The crazy debugging live on production servers in the middle of the night that saved millions of dollars or the championship-winning touchdown. Same same. We love to tell those stories.
You know those folks who peaked in high school? You look at them and feel sorry because that was as good as it got for them but tinged with a hefty dose of jealousy because you never had it that good then.
This is like that but in software terms. An individual contributor mostly works up to the point where they take on more than they can handle alone and are sometimes heroic. And some people, some really good ones, peak there.
The crazy debugging live on production servers in the middle of the night that saved millions of dollars or the championship-winning touchdown. Same same. We love to tell those stories.