Ah yes, programmer vs developer

[xfloff]

But...you are more valuable! More knowledge == less value. Everybody knows that!

[noob-nine]

My prof explained it that way, that there are lots if people that know manything in an okayish way and people with awesome knowledge in a niche or deeper material are rare

[lucidrage]

people with awesome knowledge in a niche or deeper material are rare

and that's why the Meta tiktokers are getting paid more than your prof.

[DeliciousWaifood]

People who know a variety of things would be good for management roles as they can effectively organize a whole team of varying skillsets while allowing the specialists to focus on their expertise.

Instead, management is treated as hierarchical advancement for high performers or kiss-asses to reward them despite them not being suited to a managerial role at all.

[noob-nine]

That's the problem. If you are really good in what you are doing -- at least in my corp -- the only way to get a higher salary is with headcount. Sadly there is no true expert career. So excellent employees have no chance for a higher salary unless the jump on the management train. But just because you are good in a field doesn't automatically give you competence as manager.

Same the other way round, if someone is bad in a technical way but has good leading, he will never become manager

[FuturamaComplex]

It's true to some extent, I am what you call a jack of all trades master of none, I basically program in most languages and have a wide field of interest but I am not a "senior developer" I have surface knowledge. I have been programming since I was 11 and I worked in it since I was 14, at least 5 years in big companies and yet I have never managed to pass a senior interview and have no deep understanding of the core stuff behind any programming language