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I knew I was going to get downvoted for piercing the warm & fuzzy positive reinforcement bubble here. But the first paragraph of the article suggests that in order to have a career as a developer you need to become something other than a developer. Let that sink in for a moment. If we had a bit of pride in our profession, we wouldn't let that stand as a cultural attitude.

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I think you're reading things into that paragraph that aren't there, or aren't familiar with the terminology it uses ("individual contributor" is a label for career paths where you stay a normal developer, precisely as a counterpoint to notions that the only way "up" is by leaving the profession): it does not say you need to become something else.

Says the data scientist? Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot.

As it happens I have always been a data scientist (since before there was a word for it), and being a data scientist implies being a developer. I have never been a developer trying to rebrand himself because he thought it sounded cooler and would be better paid. As a matter of fact the role I'm in right now is transitioning me into more of a pure developer/software engineering role and I don't see that as a step down.

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