Comment by gedy
2 days ago
> I’ve basically stopped hiring devs for my company
So you were just hiring devs to tell them what to do? I honestly like having the self organizing and problem solving that comes from hiring good people, and that I could trust people without dictating. Companies always benefited from that from what I saw. I guess this is why I never liked shops that outsourced to external contractors, and why I don't like "agentic" ai dev.
I run/own the companies. I have a curated list of ideas and features that I would like to implement that I know can make our products the best in the industry. I don’t need a senior developer to spitball ideas for me. As much as I cringe at the term, I play the role of the “visionary” here, not my developers. I have instead put the excess money towards hiring top producers in my sales and support teams.
Best of luck, I guess I've personally had little success at companies with "I have an idea" types in leadership.
Thanks. It’s been a slow long burn. One company is now 14 years old, and the #2 player it it’s industry. We grew very slowly over those years but we did it with a really small team and will be the dominate player in the long run. The other company is still a fresh startup, also a small team, but I have the finances to keep it afloat from the first. All of this is funded by our own profits, we do not have outside investors. It’s part of the reason we grew so slowly, at the start it was really just me, doing everything.