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Elon Musk reviews pull requests. Jeff Bezos wrote code well into Amazon's growth years. This isn't nostalgia. There's a precise strategic reason founders stay in the code.
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The wage gap between engineers and support staff isn't a bug in tech culture. It's the entire business model.
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