Comment by zero_shift
10 hours ago
It depends what you mean by enterprise project?
If you just mean a large company, I would say they do exist - though it may take some looking for them.
You can find them in companies that have to deal with "real" things (hardware, factories, production lines), or where there is an interest in taking advantage of emerging technology (advertising, e-commerce)
I would call my current project relatively systems-level too, as it's a network proxy. Not quite kernel level but definitely not trivial "if this then that" style coding.
My perspective is that application programming - CRUD, forms, IO orchestration - was always vulnerable, even before AI. Think about APIs for payments, APIs for subscriptions. E-commerce in a box type solutions.
That's why I always pushed to do more systems level work, on more exotic or weird technologies. It's not because I think I'm a better programmer, than someone slinging Spring code or React forms. But because in this industry it's better to be a goat than a cow.
> ...it's better to be a goat than a cow.
That's the first time I've heard that idiom. What does it mean?
I don't know it either, but I read it as: - 'goat' referring to both the 'greatest of all time' as in specialized and at the same time to it being a not-so-common animal, - while 'cow' is simply just a common animal, so in this context it represents a plain worker.
I'm not aware of any 'cow' acronym, that would directly relate to work/proficiency as the 'goat' does but it would further enhance the meaning behind the quoted phrase.
In fact it's exactly what is missing, for the phrase to be instantly understandable by making it symmetric in both direct and acronymic reading.
So is there a 'cow' acronym, that is an antonym to 'goat'? I'm not aware of one.