> The old days of a software as an artisanal craft is long over imho.
In corporate or government software work, sure. But there are no guilds anywhere in those organizations... unless you count the upper executives.
You might not get paid for it, but the artisanal craft of software is alive and well in free and open source software around the world. Tons of those projects get posted to HN. An app can be a home cooked meal and all that jazz. Lots of open source has been corportized too, but many are closer to an artisanal craft guild than modern corporate software work.
And if it is your startup, you can write code however you want.
This is like complaining that the industrial steel mill doesn't hire artisan blacksmiths. You can still be an artisan blacksmith these days, but more likely at a Renaissance Faire than anywhere else. But I don't blame the industrial steel mill for their hiring policy.
In corporate or government software work, sure. But there are no guilds anywhere in those organizations... unless you count the upper executives.
You might not get paid for it, but the artisanal craft of software is alive and well in free and open source software around the world. Tons of those projects get posted to HN. An app can be a home cooked meal and all that jazz. Lots of open source has been corportized too, but many are closer to an artisanal craft guild than modern corporate software work.
And if it is your startup, you can write code however you want.