Comment by jariel

Working code (beyond super basic CRUD) that maintains a companies revenues is 'priceless' not 'worthless'.

It's 'worthless' to outside parties, but that's completely besides the point.

I worked at a Networking startup that made it's own ASICs and was sold for billions on the legit premise of 'working silicon'. The plans were actually stolen by a contractor who walked out, and while bad, were a little besides the point because they can't reasonably be used by others.

It's like saying 'GM's factory is worthless'. Well maybe on the free market, but as an operating entity it's worth a lot.

And yes, 'autonomy' is a nice thing for senior devs, but it's also hard to do in practice.